Deoxy spectroscopy

From the rearrangement of tetra-O-acetyl-2-hydroxy-D-galactal in boiling acetic acid it was possible to isolate l,2,4,6-tetra-0-acetyl-2,3-dide-h.ydro-3-deoxy-a-jy-threo-hexose (32) (58%) and a small amount of 1,2,3,4,6-penta-O-acetyl-jS-D-galactopyranose. In the reaction mixture the presence of some a-pentaacetate was demonstrated chromatographically but NMR spectroscopy indicated no resonances corresponding to the / anomer of compound 32. These spectral measurements indicate that compound 32 constituted 80% of the mixture of products. 

In similar manner 3,6-dideoxyhexoses have been prepared from esteri-fied 6-deoxy-2-hydroxyglycals. 2,3,4-Tri-0-acetyl-6-deoxy-2-hydroxy-D-glucal was converted into the a and / forms of l,2,4-tri-0-acetyl-2,3-didehydro-3,6-dideoxy-D-en/t/iro-hexose. The a anomer was the main product (77%, 55% isolated crystalline) and, in addition to the ft anomer (19%), a small amount (4%) of saturated products was obtained. On hydrogenation, the major product also suffered some hydrogenolysis but afforded two tri-0-acetyl-3,6-dideoxyhexoses which were shown by NMR spectroscopy to be present in the ratio 12 13 and to have the a configuration. Deacetylation of the reduction products gave... 

Other methods of identification include the customary preparation of derivatives, comparisons with authentic substances whenever possible, and periodate oxidation. Lately, the application of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy has provided an elegant approach to the elucidation of structures and stereochemistry of various deoxy sugars (18). Microcell techniques can provide a spectrum on 5-6 mg. of sample. The practicing chemist is frequently confronted with the problem of having on hand a few milligrams of a product whose structure is unknown. It is especially in such instances that a full appreciation of the functions of mass spectrometry can be developed. 

Studies of Deoxy Sugars by Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy... 

Amide derivatives have proved especially useful sugars for study by c.d. spectroscopy. The amide substituent is the same as the chromophore found in proteins, so that its optical properties have been extensively studied both experimentally and theoretically. 2-Acetamido sugars are found in many glycoproteins. The structure of 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-a-D-glucopyranose is given as an example in formula 7. 

C.d. spectroscopy is now being applied to more complicated polysaccharides. The 3-deoxy-D-man o-2-octulopyranosylonic acids found in Escherichia coli LP1092 have been definitely assigned the a-D configuration. The negative nir c.d. band exhibited by this polysaccharide correlates with the negative c.d. of methyl 3-deoxy-a-D-wianno-2-octulopyranosidonic acid rather than the positive c.d. band exhibited by methyl 3-deoxy-)3-D-/ a/ino-2-octulopyranosidonic acid. 

Reaction of 3-amino-l-propanol and 5-bromo-5-deoxy-r/-furanoxylose 469 in DzO was monitored by H NMR spectroscopy (Scheme 43). The a-anomer of trihydroxypyrido[2,l- ][l,3]oxazine 470 formed 20 times faster, but the P-anomer 471 was more stable (Ai /p 7.3). The faster formation of the a-anomer is a consequence of a kinetic anomeric effect that destabilizes the transition state for equatorial N-alkylation and formation of the P-anomer 471 <2000JOC889>. 

The initiating reaction between aldoses and amines, or amino acids, appears to involve a reversible formation of an N-substituted aldosyl-amine (75) see Scheme 14. Without an acidic catalyst, hexoses form the aldosylamine condensation-product in 80-90% yield. An acidic catalyst raises the reaction rate and yet, too much acid rapidly promotes the formation of 1-amino-l-deoxy-2-ketoses. Amino acids act in an autocat-alytic manner, and the condensation proceeds even in the absence of additional acid. A considerable number of glycosylamines have been prepared by heating the saccharides and an amine in anhydrous ethanol in the presence of an acidic catalyst. N.m.r. spectroscopy has been used to show that primary amines condense with D-ribose to give D-ribopyrano-sylamines. ... 

Our biomimetic investigations have focused on the metalloproteins hemocyanin (He) (11-17) and tyrosinase (11,12,14,16,18,29), which contain two copper ions in their active center. The function of hemocyanin is to bind and transport dioxygen in the hemolymph of molluscs and arthropods. Studies employing EXAFS spectroscopy have shown that in the deoxy form, two (19-21) or three (13,21) imidazole units fiom protein histidine residues coordinate to each cuprous ion. Upon addition of O2 to give oxy-Hc, considerable changes take place in the coordination sphere giving rise to tetragonally coordinated Cu(II) ions... 

T. Nakada, I.L. Kwee, C.B. Conboy, Noninvasive in vivo denonstratlon of 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose metabolism beyond the hexokinase reaction In rat-brain by F-19 nuclear-magnetic-resonance spectroscopy. J. Neurochem. 46 (1986) 198. 

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