Glucal 6-deoxy

Unsaturated sugars are useful synthetic intermediates (11). The most commonly used are the so-called glycals (1,5- or 1,4-anhydroalditol-l-enes). In the presence of a Lewis-acid catalyst, 3,4,6-tri-0-acetyl-l,5-anhydro-2-deoxy-D-arabinohex-l-enitol [2873-29-2] commonly called D-glucal triacetate, adds nucleophiles in both kineticaHy controlled and thermodynamically controlled (soft bases predominately at C-3 and hard bases primarily at C-1) reactions (11,13). 

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... 

All derivatives used were prepared by essentially standard literature procedures and had physical constants in accord with previously reported values. Furthermore, the P.M.R. spectra were in each case consistent with the assigned structures. All solutions were concentrated under reduced pressure and m.p. s are uncorrected. (I) 2-Deoxy-D-arafczno-hexopyranose was a commercial sample from Pfanstiehl Lab. Inc., Waukegan, Illinois and was used without further purification. (II) 3, 4, 6-Tri-O-acetyl-D-glucal (1) was a commercial sample from Aldrich Chem. Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was purified by distillation and recrystallized three times from aqueous ethanol. (Ill) 1, 3, 4, 6-tetra-0-acetyl-2-deoxy-a-D-arahino-hexopyranose (4) was prepared by the method of Bonner (11) while the corresponding / -anomer (5) was synthesized following the procedure of Overend, Stacey, and Stanek (47). (IV) 5, 6-Dideoxy-1, 2-0-isopropylidene-a-D-xj/io-hex-5-enofuranose (20) was provided by A. Rosenthal and G. Khan of this Department. 

Anhydro-2-deoxy-D-arab/no-hex-1-enitol (non-preferred trivial name D-glucal)... 

In 1969, Adamson, Foster, and others - reported the synthesis of 2-deoxy-2-fluoro sugars by addition ofCFjOF (in CFCI3, — 80°) to 3,4,6-tri-O-acetyl-l,5-anhydro-2-deoxy-D-flra/)/>zo-hex-l-enitol (61 3,4,6-tri-O-acetyl-D-glucal). The reagent fluorinates 61 electrophilically - °° at C-2, to afford c/v-addition products trifluoromethyl 3,4,6-tri-C)-acetyl-2-deoxy-2-... 

Introduction of F2 into 3,4,6-tri-O-acetyl-D-glucal (61) in CCI3F (Freon 11) at —78° in a manner used for the non-labeled compound (so-called cold synthesis) gave a 4 1 mixture of 3,4,6-tri-0-acetyl-2-deoxy-2-[ F]fluoro-a-D-gluco- (574) and ) -D-manno-pyranosyl fluorides (575),... 

Scheme 3.—Formation of 2-Deoxy-a-D-arahino-hexosyl Enzyme from D-Glucal at the Active Site of a )3-D-Glucosidase.

If k2 > kj, the glycosyl-enzyme intermediate will accumulate, and may be trapped by the rapid denaturation of the enzyme in the presence of (saturating) amounts of substrate. With -glucoside Aj from Asp. wentii and 4-nitrophenyl [ C]-2-deoxy-) -D-irra />jo-hexopyranoside, it was possible to identify the intermediate as a glycosyl ester (acylal) of 2-deoxy-D-arabino-hexose bound to the same aspartate residue that had previously been labeled with the active-site-directed inhibitor conduritol B epoxide and with D-glucal." This constituted an important proof that the carboxylate reacting with the epoxide is directly involved in catalysis. 

Glycals are also available from 2-deoxy sugars by acid- or base-induced eliminations ofanomeric substituents. These methods are limited by the availability ofthe 2-deoxy sugars, for which the glycals themselves are the most obvious synthetic precursors. However, examples of these methods (Scheme 5.43) are in the direct preparation oftri-O-benzyl-D-glucal (14) from 2-deoxy-tri-O-benzyl-D-glucopyranose (13) via its 1-O-mesylate [117], and di-O-benzyl-D-ribal (16) from the phenylselenide 15 via oxidation to the selenoxide followed by elimination [118]. 

Unusually-substituted deoxy sugars are found in a number of biologically important natural products, and an application of iodoglycosylation for the preparation of these compounds is shown in Scheme 5.51 [142]. Protected glucals 1 or 14 were selectively converted into 2-deoxy-2-iodo-a-mannopyranosyl glycosides 56 or 57. The... 

A second approach (pathway b) involves the addition of iodoazide to glucal 1 to give 2-iodoglycosyl azides 96, predominantly in the a-manno-configuration [162]. These can be converted into 2-deoxy-2-acctamido-[l-glucosidcs 97 by treatment with PPh3 and an alcohol, followed by subsequent protection of the amino moiety. 

On treatment of tri-O-acetyl-D-glucal with chlorine and silver fluoride,198 all four possible isomers were formed tri-0-acetyl-2-chloro-2-deoxy-a-D-mannopyranosyl fluoride (16%), tri-0-acetyl-2-chloro-2-deoxy-/3-D-mannopyranosyl fluoride (16%), tri-0-acetyl-2-chloro-2-deoxy-a-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride (6%), and tri-O-acetyl-2-chloro-2-deoxy-/3-D-glucopyranosyl fluoride (62%). These product ratios differ significantly from those of the corresponding bromofluorination and iodofluorination reactions of tri-O -ace tyl-D-glucal,43,53 and this behavior has been discussed198 in terms of the differences observed between the addition of bromine (or iodine) and chlorine to tri-O-acetyl-D-glu-cal, and the nature of the chlorination reaction itself. 

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