Arabinose 6-deoxy

A second approach for the synthesis of 6-formylpterin (23) involves the condensation of triamin opyrimidinone (10) with 5-deoxy-L-arabinose (26). The key diol is obtained in four steps starting from compound (10). Cleavage of the diol side chain is achieved either with periodate (39) or with lead(TV) (40) to furnish 6-formylpterin (23) in 45% overall yield. 

The related 3-deoxy-D-waHnooctulosonic acid aldolase (KDO aldolase F.C 4.1.2.23) likewise suffers from an unattractive equilibrium constant but allows a simple synthesis of specifically labelled KDO from D-arabinose and labelled pyruvate28. 

Deoxy-i>maw f)-2-octulosonic acid 8-phosphate can be obtained in gram quantities by using KDO synthase (F.C 4.1.2.16) for the addition of PEP to D-arabinose 5-phosphate33. DA HP synthase (EC 4.1.2.15) produces 3-deoxy-L>-arer/>/>io-heptulosonic acid 7-phosphate from PEP and D-erythrose 4-phosphate35. 

Deoxy-sugars. Part II. Synthesis of 2-Deoxy-D-ribose and 3-Deoxy-D-xylose from D-Arabinose, P. W. Kent, M. Stacey, and L. F. Wiggins,/. Chem. Soc., (1949) 1232-1235. 

Such names as bacillosamine for 2,4-diamino-2,4,6-trideoxy-D-glucose and garosamine for 3-deoxy-4-C-methyl-3-methylamino-L-arabinose are not recommended, as they imply replacement of OH by NH2 in a nonexistent parent sugar. 

As an example for continuous process design, 2-keto-3-deoxy-D lycero-D-galacto-nonosouate (KDN) (S) has been produced on a 100-g scale from D-mannose and pyruvate using a pilot-scale EMR at a space-time yield of 375 gl d and an overall crystallized yield of 75% (Figure 10.6) [47]. Similarly, L-KDO (6) can be synthesized from L-arabinose [48]. 

Deoxy-3-fluoro-D-glucose (25%) and -mannose (40%) were prepared from 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-D-arabinose by a chain-extension reaction (cyanohydrin synthesis). Likewise, 4-deoxy-4-fluoro-D-glucose ° (27%) and -mannose (45%) were prepared from 3-deoxy-3-fluoro-D-arabinose. ... 

Deoxy-3-fluoro-D-glucose (see Section 11,2), a weak substrate for yeast hexokinase, is phosphorylated enzymically - to give the 6-phosphate 588, which is transformed into 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-D-arabinose 5-phos-phate (589) by lead tetraacetate oxidation. 

A monoaminopentose, 4-amino-4-deoxy-L-arabinose, is known as a component of some Gram-negative bacteria. It is linked, as the )5-pyranosyl phosphate (18), to a 2-amino-2-deoxy-y -D-glucopyranosyI residue in the lipid A part of the LPS. ... 

The biosynthesis of Kdo and neuraminic acid is known to involve enol-pyruvate phosphate and D-arabinose or 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-mannose, respectively. Nothing is known about the biosynthesis of all the other glycu-losonic acids. One interesting problem is, for example, whether the two 5,7-diamino-3,5,7,9-tetradeoxynonulosonic acids are synthesized analogously to neuraminic acid, from a three- and a six-carbon fragment, by modification of neuraminic acid on the sugar nucleotide level, or by a third, less obvious route. 

D-Lyxose yielded a D-lyxosyl chloride 2,3,4-tri(chlorosulfate) which, on treatment with chloride ion, led to a dichlorodideoxy compound, most probably 2,4-dichloro-2,4-dideoxy-L-arabinose.353 D-Glucose gave a compound presumed to be 4,6-dichloro-4,6-dideoxy-a,/3-D-galactosyl chloride 2,3-di(chlorosulfate),360 and D-xylose afforded a monochloromonodeoxy derivative formulated, on indirect evidence, as 4-chloro-4-deoxy-L-arabinopyranosyl chloride 2,3-di(chlorosulfate).360 3,4-Dichloro-3,4-dideoxy-/3-D-ribopyranosyl chloride 2-(chlorosulfate) was the major, and 4-chloro-4-deoxy-a-D-xylopyranosyl chloride 2,3-di(chlorosulfate) the minor, product from the reaction of L-arabinose with sulfuryl chloride at room temperature for 24 hours.357,361 It has been established that, on reaction with sulfuryl chloride at low temperature, crystalline a-D-xylopyranose and /3-D-lyxopyranose afford, respectively, the 2,4,6-tri(chlorosul-fate)s of /3-D-xylopyranosyl chloride and a-D-lyxopyranosyl chloride,362 363 confirming that substitution at C-l occurs by an Sn2 process on a l-(chlorosulfuric) ester intermediate. 

Photolysis of three 2,4-dinitroanilino-substituted carbohydrates, compounds that differ considerably from each other in photochemical reactivity, has been reported.150,151 l-Deoxy-l-(2,4-dinitroanilino)-D-glucitol (73) is photochemically unreactive in contrast, sodium 2-deoxy-2-(2,4-dinitroanilino)-D-gluconate (74) produces D-arabinose in 52% yield upon irradiation.150 The behavior of compounds 73 and 74 indicates that oxidative loss of the 2,4-dinitroanilino group during photolysis is only possible when it is accompanied by simultaneous decarboxylation. The evidence gathered from the considerable study of this reaction for noncarbohydrate systems suggested that this process is quite complex. Although useful, mechanistic proposals have... 

Most of the structural and biochemical work related to KDO is based on the estimation of the compound or its derivatives by the periodate-thiobarbituric acid (TBA) assay in its various modifications. Indeed, KDO (see Fig. 3) was discovered9 through the formation of a characteristic, purple, TBA chromophore (Xmax 549 nm) from its 8-phosphate (2), which is the product of the condensation of D-arabinose 5-phosphate with enolpyruvate phosphate, catalyzed by 3-deoxy-8-0-phosphonooctulosonate synthetase (EC 4.1.2.16) (see Scheme 1 and Section V,2). 

Charon and Szabo17 demonstrated that chromophore 4 may be produced to a significant extent from a 5-O-substituted derivative of KDO (which does not contain a free diol grouping at C-4-C-5). These authors synthesized 3-deoxy-5-0-methyl-2-octulosonic acid (7 configuration at C-5-C-7, arabino at C-4, unknown) by the Comforth reaction18,19 from 4-0-formyl-2-0-methyl-D-arabinose (see Scheme 4 and Section IV,1). Compound 7 gave a millimolar extinction coefficient of 13 in the TBA assay (as compared to 92 5 for KDO). Based on this result, Charon and Szabo17 formulated for the TBA reaction of 5-0-... 

Following the synthesis by Comforth and his associates18 of NeuAc from oxalacetate and 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-mannose, Ghalambor and Heath29,31 prepared KDO (isolated as the crystalline methyl 2,4,5,7,8-penta-0-acetyl-3-deoxy-D-manno-2-octulopyranosonate, 70) from D-arabinose and oxalacetate by an analogous reaction (see Scheme 20). 

D-Ribono-1,4-lactone (1) readily condenses with acetone, under acidic catalysis with mineral acids or anhydrous copper sulfate, to give 2,3-0-isopropylidene-D-ribono-1,4-lactone (16a), which was employed for the synthesis of 5-deoxy and 5-0-substituted derivatives of D-ribono- 1,4-lactone and D-ribitol (24). Acid removal of the 1,3-dioxolane protecting group gave products having probable inhibitory activity of arabinose 5-phosphate isomerase (25). Other applications of 16a for the synthesis of natural products will be discussed later. 

In plants a linkage between 4-hydroxy-L-proline and L-arabinose and in halobacteria a linkage between L-asparagine and D-Glucose/2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-galactose has been reported. 

The rate of oxidation of other monosaccharides (e.g. galactose, mannose, xylose, arabinose and fructose) by glucose oxidase has been shown to be negligible or zero but some derivatives of glucose do react slightly, e.g. 2-deoxy-D-glucose shows a reaction rate of less than 5% of that with /3-D-glucose. 

The condensation of 2,4,5-triamino-6-hydroxypyrimidine and 5-deoxy-L-arabinose phenylhydrazone 1042, followed by oxidation of the intermediate 1043, gave biopterin 1044. The tetrahydrobiopterin is the natural cofactor of phenylalanine hydrolase. Various stereochemical isomers were also pre-... 

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