Oxidation hexoses

Biochemical pathway used by acetogens for fermentation of sugars and utilization of one-carbon precursors for biomass and acetate production 7 hexose oxidation to pyruvate by the Embden-Meyerhof pathway, 2 pyruvate-ferredoxin oxidoreductase,... 

P. exhibit the typical chemical properties of other reducing sugars (hexoses) oxidation to the salts of the corresponding acids or their lactones, reduction to polyalcohols (pentites), substitution of the alcoholic groups by esters or ethers, dehydration splitting (water elimination) to ftirfural, fermentation by microorganisms. 

Another hexose gives the same aldaric acid on oxidation as... 

Both the fermentation of hexose sugars to ethanol and carbon dioxide and the oxidation of ethanol to acetic acid are exothermic (heat yielding) processes (see Sugar). The first reaction is expressed as foUows ... 

In contrast with the well-known Embden-Meyerhof-Pamass glycolysis pathway for the conversion of hexose sugars to alcohol, the steps in conversion of ethanol to acetic acid remain in some doubt. Likely, ethanol is first oxidized to acetaldehyde and water (39). For further oxidation, two alternative routes are proposed more likely, hydration of the acetaldehyde gives CH2CH(OH)2, which is oxidized to acetic acid. An alternative is the Cannizzaro-type disproportionation of two molecules of acetaldehyde to one molecule of ethanol and one molecule of acetic acid. Jicetobacter... 

Sharpless and Masumune have applied the AE reaction on chiral allylic alcohols to prepare all 8 of the L-hexoses. ° AE reaction on allylic alcohol 52 provides the epoxy alcohol 53 in 92% yield and in >95% ee. Base catalyze Payne rearrangement followed by ring opening with phenyl thiolate provides diol 54. Protection of the diol is followed by oxidation of the sulfide to the sulfoxide via m-CPBA, Pummerer rearrangement to give the gm-acetoxy sulfide intermediate and finally reduction using Dibal to yield the desired aldehyde 56. Homer-Emmons olefination followed by reduction sets up the second substrate for the AE reaction. The AE reaction on optically active 57 is reagent... 

A third, and more promising, route is currently under investigation. Bromine oxidation of an aqueous solution of 2-deoxy-D-nbo-hexose gave the hitherto unreported 2-deoxy-D-nbo-hexono-l,4-lactone, which was benzoylated to yield 3,5,6-tri-0-benzoyl-2-deoxy-D-nbo-hexono-l,4-lactone. Studies are in progress to effect a reduction of the benzoylated... 

Deoxy-sugars. Part XXVII. The Catalytic Oxidation of Some Derivatives of 2-Deoxy-D-hexoses, W. G. Overend, F. Shafizadeh, M. Stacey, and G. Vaughan,/. Chem. Soc., (1954) 3633-3634. 

The hexoses that are the initial products of acid hydrolysis of sucrose (1) react at el vated temperature under the influence of acids to yield furfural derivatives (2). Thed condense, for example, with the phenols to yield triarylmethanes (3), these react furthei by oxidizing to yield colored quinoid derivatives (2, 4). Polyhydric phenols, e. g. resorj cinol, on the other hand, yield condensation products of Types 5 and 6 [2],... 

Based on these results, a novel method for the synthesis of hexose-6-aldehydes from natural carbohydrate sources has been developed by us. Preliminary results for the regioselective oxidation of the primaty alcohol group in glycosides by the dinuclear copper(ll) complex N, A-bis[(2-pyridylmethyl)-l,3-diaminopropan-2-olato] (p-acetato) dicopper(ll) perchlorate (Cu2(bpdpo), (4) are described below. 

The most important product of the hexose monophosphate pathway is reduced nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH). Another important function of this pathway is to provide ribose for nucleic acid synthesis. In the red blood cell, NADPH is a major reducing agent and serves as a cofactor in the reduction of oxidized glutathione, thereby protecting the cell against oxidative attack. In the syndromes associated with dysfunction of the hexose monophosphate pathway and glutathione metabolism and synthesis, oxidative denaturation of hemoglobin is the major contributor to the hemolytic process. 

Glutathione reductase (GR) catalyzes the reduction of oxidized glutathione (GSSG) to reduced glutathione (GSH) using NADPH provided from the hexose monophosphate pathway. GR, a ubiquitous flavoenzyme, maintains a high value of two for the GSH/GSSG ratio in the red blood cells. l,3-Bis(2-chloroethyl)-nitrosourea (BCNU) selectively inhibits cellular GR. GR is composed of two identical subunits, each of molecular mass 50 kDa (S8). The three-dimensional structure and mechanism of catalysis have been established for human GR (K17). 

The best known 2,5-anhydro hexose is that which was prepared in 1894 by Fischer and Tiemann4 and named by them chitose. Chitose is a liquid with ill-defined properties and is usually characterized by its oxidation derivatives, chitonic acid and isosaccharic acid. It is prepared by the deamination of the naturally occurring chitosamine (D-glu-cosamine). 

It was observed in those cases in which the oxidation was arrested too soon that an appreciable amount of silver chloride was deposited when the solution was concentrated. Furthermore, the mother liquor, when treated with phenyl-hydrazine in acetic acid, deposited some yellow crystalline D,L-mannose phenylhydrazone, m. p. 195-200° (Maquenne block). It is apparent that too vigorous oxidation results in the formation of hexoses. 

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