Deoxy-halogenation

CS esters react with hydrogen haUdes (28,29,31) to yield deoxy halogenated products. 

The reaction is quite susceptible to steric effects since hindered secondary hydroxyl groups were found to be unreactive. The method can therefore be used to selectively replace a primary hydroxyl group by halogen in the presence of more hindered secondary hydroxyl groups in the same molecule. An example (70) is the reaction of 52 with triphenylphosphite methiodide which affords the 6-deoxy-6-iodo derivative 53 (60%) in which the C-2 hydroxyl group remains intact. 

Despite several attractive features in this method of direct halogen introduction and the obvious applications in the synthesis of deoxy sugars, its uses have not been further exploited by other groups of workers. Some new related methods have become available which reportedly eliminate the difficulties previously encountered such as rearrangement, unreactivity due to steric hindrance, and phosphonate ester formation. The reaction is based on the observation (28) that triethylphosphine reacts with ethanol and carbon tetrachloride to give ethyl chloride, chloroform, and triethylphosphite. In a new adaptation (76, 77) of this... 

In contrast to uridine,389 cytidine does not yield a 5 -chloro-5 -deoxy derivative on reaction with N,N-dimethyl(chlorometh-animinium) chloride instead 2,2 -anhydrocytidine is formed.395 However, thionyl chloride or bromide in hexamethylphosphor-amide at room temperature achieves this selective replacement of the primary hydroxyl group of halogen in cytidine, and also in adenosine, in respective yields of 80 and 75% for the chloro compounds, and 55 and 30% for the bromo analogs.396... 

On treatment with concentrated halogen acids, certain hexitols yield 1,6-dideoxy-l,6-dihalo compounds. The structure of the compound so obtained from galactitol, first reported by Bouchardat,404 was later verified by synthesis.405 Allitol is transformed406 into 1,4-anhydro-6-chloro-6-deoxy-DL-allitol and l,4-anhydro-5,6-dichloro-5,6-dideoxy-DL-talitol on treatment with fuming hydrochloric acid at 100°. 

Several halogenated carbohydrates have been studied. One example is methyl 6-bromo-6-deoxy-a-D-galactopyranoside.48 Bromine... 

The reaction of alkyl dihalogenoacetate magnesium enolates with 2,3-isopropylidene-D-glyceraldehyde affords the expected /3-hydroxy-a-dihalogenoesters . The erythro isomer is obtained with isopropyl dichloroacetate magnesium enolate. This result is in agreement with theoretical models. 2-Deoxy-pentono-1,4-lactones are obtained after removal of the halogen atom by either Raney nickel or tributyltin hydride reduction (equation 89). 

In a similar vein, reaction of the readily accessible xanthine (39-1) with the ubiquitous phosphorus oxychloride affords the enol chloride (39-2). Alkylation of the anion obtained from that product with a base with the chloro deoxy sugar (39-3) leads to the glycosylated product (39-4). Treatment with ammonia selectively replaces the halogen at the 6 position. The protecting groups on the sugar are cleaved in the course of the reaction to afford cladribine (39-4) [41]. 

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