Anomerization, of carbohydrates

Anomerization of carbohydrate derivs. 29, 215 Anthracene s. Sodium/-Anthranils s. 2,1-Benzisoxazoles Anthranol esters 29, 921... 

Without additional reagents Epimerization and anomerization of carbohydrates... 

Glycosides are a large and very important class of carbohydrate derivatives character ized by the replacement of the anomeric hydroxyl group by some other substituent Gly cosides are termed O glycosides N glycosides S glycosides and so on according to the atom attached to the anomeric carbon... 

Sfrucfurally O glycosides are mixed acefals fhaf involve fhe anomeric posifion of furanose and pyranose forms of carbohydrates Recall fhe sequence of mfermediafes m acefal formalion (Secfion 17 8)... 

An electronegative substituent adjacent to a ring oxygen atom also shows a preference for an axial orientation. This is known as the anomeric effect , and is particularly significant to the conformations of carbohydrates (B-71MI20100, B-83MI20100). 

N HCl, EtOH, reflux, 90% yield for cholesterol. Although a direct stability comparison was not made, this group should be more stable than the THP group for the same reasons that the anomeric ethers of carbohydrates are more stable than their 2-deoxy counterparts. 

The first observations on the stereochemical dependence of spin-lattice relaxation-rates of carbohydrate molecules, beginning in " 1972, provided a general survey of the nonselective relaxation-rates of the anomeric protons of monosaccharide derivatives, oligosaccharides, and some polysaccharides. 

Glycosyl halides, a very important group of carbohydrate derivatives, are commonly prepared14 from per-O-acylated sugars by reaction with hydrogen halides or halides of aluminum or titanium. The selection of the method depends mainly on the anomeric configuration of the substrate, the kind of its O-acyl groups, and the stability of the product to be prepared. 

Blocking the anomeric reactivity allows one not only to inhibit enzymes, which interfere with biological functions, but also to mimic glycosides by stable compounds of pharmacological relevance. Hence, modifications of the anomeric centre of carbohydrates are also reviewed, as well as compounds of that type which have found application as drugs. 

The first interpretation of the conformational anomeric effect, given by Edward,2 invoked more favorable electrostatic interactions in the axial anomers than in the equatorial anomers of carbohydrates (Fig. 8). 

Carboxylic acids, being weaker acids, react with la-a with inversion of configuration at the anomeric center to yield /2-0-acyl compounds (1,53). This mild and convenient method for 1 -0-acylation of carbohydrates is also useful for pharmacological drug modification (54) or for the resolution of carboxylic acids (53). 

Unsaturated monosaccharides [e.g. (91)] react with the Ph3P-DAD combination in the presence of phthalimide, with inversion of configuration of C-4, to form the phthalimido-derivatives (92).82 Treatment of carbohydrates having a free anomeric OH group with 6-chloropurine, DAD, and methyldiphenylphosphine gives the purine nucleosides (93).83... 

Stereoelectronic effects can be invoked for the radical reaction at anomeric centre of carbohydrates. The high stereoselective preparation of a-substituted C-glycosyl phosphonates in a a p ratio of 98 2 was achieved by reductive addition of bromide 2 to a-phosphonoacrylate (Reaction 7.5) [10]. Yields (in parentheses) depend on the sugar configuration D-galacto (80%), D-manno (47 %), D-gluco (30 %) and L-fuco (62 %). 

Fig. 1 also may be used to note some general characteristics of C spectra of carbohydrate polymers ( -11) Chemical shifts of anomeric carbons (C-l), in the region of 100-110 p.p.m., are typically well separated from other signals. As compared with C-l of the related monosaccharides (12-15)j the anomeric carbon is strongly deshielded (commonly by 7-10 p.p.m.) through glycoside formation (9)> i.e., by the change from 0-H to an 0-C bond. 

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