Glycosyl phosphates activation

Cycle Used with Glycosyl Phosphate Activation and Levulinoyl Deprotection... 

Synthesis of glycosyl phosphates by exposure of hemiacetals to 81 activated derivatives of phosphoric acid... 

Synthesis of glycosyl phosphates by activation of the anomeric hydroxyl group... 

Synthesis of glycosyl phosphates by reaction of hemiacetals with activated phosphoric acid derivatives... 

Although addition of activated phosphoramidite to hemiacetals of manno-pyranoses under thermodynamic control has been reported to deliver exclusively a-phosphates in some cases,43 anomeric mixtures with preponderance of a-anomer have been reported in other examples.10,44 Since formation of phosphorotetrazolidite is a rate-limiting step of the process, initial activation of phosphoramidite followed by addition of nucleophilic hemiacetal should accelerate condensation and favour the formation of the thermodynamic a-product. Indeed, reaction of hemiacetal 101 with dibenzyl phosphorotetrazolidite assured exclusive a-selectivity of the resulting glycosyl phosphate 102.43 The accumulation in the reaction mixture of mildly acidic 1H-tetrazole, which is liberated upon reaction of tetrazolidite with hydroxylic component, could also favour predominant formation of the a-phosphate (Scheme 18, A). Conventional hydrogenolysis afforded the a-mannosyl phosphate 103. 

Fucosyl phosphate 36 also very efficiently glycosylated the C4 position of acceptor 32. The orthogonality of the activating conditions of thioglycosides and glycosyl phosphate donors was exploited in the synthesis of trisaccharide glycal 41 (Scheme 6.7A).32 Furthermore, the different reactivity of a- and p-glycosyl phosphates was... 

Nucleoside 5 -phosphates are employed as starting materials to prepare the activated derivatives (56). Their synthesis has been discussed in a Chapter in this Series.266 The methods used most frequently for preparing glycosyl phosphates involve the interaction of protected glycosyl bromides with diphenyl phosphate and subsequent removal of the protective groups,267 or by fusion of the peracetylated monosaccharides with anhydrous phosphoric acid.268... 

In all of the foregoing examples, an activated derivative of the nucleotide has been employed for generating the pyrophosphate link. An attempt to use an activated glycosyl phosphate failed 311 the only product identified from the reaction between /3-D-glucopyranosyl phosphoramidate (68) and uridine 5 -phosphate was the cyclic phosphate 69. The ease of participation of the sterically accessible, C-2 hydroxyl group probably accounts for this result. The usual procedure... 

In the late fifties, the N. I.H. started the Visiting Program under this, young scientists were invited to work for one or two years at the Institutes under the direction of staff members. Dr. Fletcher actively participated in this program. It was as a Visitor in Dr. Fletcher s laboratory that Dr. Donald L. MacDonald became interested in the preparation of phosphoric esters of carbohydrates, and his work eventually led to the MacDonald method of synthesizing glycosyl phosphates. 

It seemed of interest to check whether the type of biosynthetic mechanism involved may be related to the structure of the polymeric chain formed. In the block mechanism of chain assembly, formation of polyprenyl glycosyl diphosphates through transfer of glycosyl phosphate is a necessary step of the process. Thus far, only UDP-activated monosaccharides have been found to participate in this reaction (see Section 11,3). Consequently, the presence of a monosaccharide residue of this group in the main chain of a polymer may be regarded as a necessary condition for assembly of the chain through the block mechanism. 

After developing procedures for the activation and coupling of anomeric trichloroacetimidate and glycosyl phosphate donors as well as for the deprotection of acetyl and levulinoyl esters, we designed a synthesis utilizing all aspects of our automated chemistry. Trisaccharide 24, composed of three... 

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