D-Glucosazone

Phenylhydrazinc, as hydrochloride solution plus sodium acetate, reacts with polyhydroxy aldehydes or ketones yielding osazones or diphenyl-hydrazones, yellow solids, of definite melting point and utilized in identification of sugars, e.g.. phenyl-d-glucosazone. CH OH (CHOH), C (NNHC6H5)CH (NNHCftH,) plus aniline C6H5NH plus NH,... 

Several mechanisms34 have been proposed for this reaction. That of Weygand,36 in which an Amadori rearrangement is proposed, has considerable merit.37 Illustrations of unusual osazone formation are described by Bonner and Drisko.38 When phenyl /S-D-xylopyranosyl sulfone (XXII) or /J-D-glucopyranosyl sulfone (XXIV) is oxidized by periodic acid, a dialdehyde oxidation product (XXIII or XXV), which is susceptible toward further oxidation, is obtained. The reaction of XXIII or XXV with phenylhydrazine yields glyoxal phenylosazone and benzenesulfinic acid. Surprisingly, both XXII and XXIII react with phenylhydrazine to form D-xylosazone and D-glucosazone, respectively. 

Very little conclusive evidence for the position of the methyl group in 2-methyl-D-mannose is available. Pacsu and Trister4 showed that the sugar reacted with phenylhydrazine in the cold to give a phenylhydrazone but not a phenylosazone. More drastic conditions were required to form the phenylosazone, during which reaction the methyl group was lost with the formation of D-glucosazone. 

The structure of this sugar was established as follows (a) reaction with phenylhydrazine yielded 4-methyl-D-glucosazone 11 (b) oxidation (HOBr) yielded a methylmannonolactone, which exhibited the properties that are characteristic of 8-lactones.7... 

The structure of Percival dianhydro-osazone has been established, and Mester and Moczar have shown that dehydro-D-glucosazone has the cyclic structure (48) rather than an acyclic structure as has previously been suggested. The observed chemical shifts and coupling constants are in accord with the conformation shown (49). 

Chemical Properties of d-Fructose.—The carbohydrate forms a phenylhydrazone when treated with phenylhydrazine when heated in aqueous solution with an excess of the hydrazine, an osazone is formed, which is identical with d-glucosazone. The... 

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