Isopropylidene ketal

CYCLIC ACETALS AND KETALS 123 7. Acetonide (Isopropylidene Ketal) (Chart 3)... 

Deoxy-D-jcylo hexose 6-(dihydrogen phosphate) (21) has also been synthesized (2) the reaction sequence makes use of 3-deoxy l 2,5 6-di-O-isopropylidene D-galactofuranose (16), a compound that can be easily prepared from D-glucose (2, 60). The mono-isopropylidene derivative (17) formed by partial hydrolysis of the di-ketal is converted into the 6-tosylate (18) by reaction with one molar equivalent of p-toluenesulfonyl chloride. From this the epoxide (19) is formed by reaction with sodium methoxide. Treatment of the anhydro sugar with an aqueous solution of disodium hydrogen phosphate (26) leads to the 6-phosphate (20)... 

Whereas l,2-0-isopropylidene-5,6-di-0-methyl-D-glucofuranose was found to be unreactive towards triphenylphosphite dibromide, triphenylphosphite methiodide or phosphorus pentachloride, the related methyl 2,5,6-tri-0-methyl-/ -D-glucofuranoside (59), in which the hindrance caused by the ketal group is absent, reacted with triphenylphosphite methiodide to give the 3-deoxy-3-iodo derivative 60 in 31% yield. 

The present work involves the study of methyl glycosides and O-isopropylidene ketals of various isomeric deoxy sugars by mass spectrometry. Several of the compounds selected for the present study have free hydroxyl groups, and interpretation of their mass spectra shows the scope of the study of these and related deoxy sugar derivatives by mass spectrometry without prior substitution of all hydroxyl groups. Some of the candidates (compounds 4, 7, 8 and 10) are structurally related to biologically-derived deoxy sugars. 

The Mass Spectra of O-Isopropylidene Ketals 9 (Figure 6), 10, (Figure 7), and 11 (Figure 8). Three fragmentations characteristic of O-isopropylidene ketals are loss of a methyl radical from the ketal ring, cleavage of bonds adjacent to the ketal ring, and loss of acetone (12). 

In the mass spectrum (Figure 8) of the corresponding ketal of 5-deoxy-D-xt/Zo-hexose, 5-deoxy-l,2-0-isopropylidene-D- rt/Zo-hexofuranose (11), the peak from C-4-C-5 cleavage, m/e 159, is of minor relative intensity. Since the ions at m/e 159 are the same from both isomers, 10 and 11, the intensity difference must be attributable to the lower stability of the primary radical formed from C-5 of 11 compared with the secondary radical from 10 ... 

Peaks at m/e 113 and 85 have been found in the mass spectra (12) of other O-isopropylidene ketals of sugars, as well as in Figure 7. Since these shift to m/e 119 and to m/e 88 and 91 in the mass spectrum of 10a as they did for the d6-analogs in Reference 12, the structures, 17, 18, and 19 from Reference 12 are shown as possible explanations. The peak at m/e 85 (91) could alternatively be from m/e 113 (119) by loss of carbon monoxide (28 mass units) from the six-membered-ring of structure 17b. 

Acetals and Ketals.—When D-glucosone condenses with acetone in the presence of sulfuric acid, crystalline 1,2 2,3 5,6-tri-0-isopropylidene(2-hydroxy-D-orobmo-hexose) (XLI) may be isolated.7 On graded hydrolysis... 

The approach was carried out on a ketohexo backbone bearing acid-sensitive ketal groups (Scheme 29). l,2 4,5-Di-0-isopropylidene-/ -D-fructo-pyranose readily underwent PDC oxidation of the 3-OH, followed by selective acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of the 4,5-ketal to afford a partially protected ketone in 94% overall yield. For the subsequent HSCN condensation, adapted acidic conditions had to be established to avoid 1,2-isopropylidene cleavage under thermal conditions and the target OZT (R = H) could be isolated in 60% yield. When performed in ethanol, the condensation afforded the acetalic counterpart (R = Et) albeit in lower yield. 

In principle, a number of different types of acetal or ketal might be produced. In this section, we want to exemplify a small number of useful reactions in which two of the hydroxyl groups on the sugar are bound up by forming a cyclic acetal or ketal with a snitable aldehyde or ketone reagent. Aldehydes or ketones react with 1,2- or 1,3-diols under acidic conditions to form cyclic acetals or ketals. If the diol is itself cyclic, then the two hydroxyl groups need to be cA-oriented to allow the thermodynamically favourable fused-ring system to form (see Section 3.5.2). Thus, dx-cyclohexan-1,2-diol reacts with acetone to form a cyclic ketal, a 1,2-O-isopropylidene derivative usually termed, for convenience, an acetonide. 

The following abbreviations are used in this and the subsequent tables Ac for acetyl, Pr for propionyl, Bu for butyryl, Bz for benzoyl, Ts for tosyl, My for methylene, Ed for ethylidene, Bd for benzylidene, Fd for furfurylidene. Id for isopropylidene, Me for methyl, Et for ethyl, Be for benzyl, Tr for trityl and Az for azoyl. Where the linkages of acetals and ketals are known, they are shown by different type fonts.)... 

The reaction is 100% stereoselective and affords 69 as a unique stereomer with the (/f)-configuration at C-6, assigned by X-ray analysis. Consequently, the configuration at C-6 results from the well-known chair transition state model for the (Z)-O-allyl enol 68 in which the aUyl unit is on the opposite side to the isopropylidene ketal at C3-C4 and reacts on the Si face of the trisubstituted carbon-carbon double bond. Such a transition state leads to the sole (/ )-configuration in 69. 

Difluorocyclopentadiene was prepared via a pyrolysis reaction the difluoro-methylene centre was installed (Eq. 119) using a DAST fluorination [318]. A fluorobutenolide building block was prepared by a Wadsworth-Emmons reaction of isopropylidene glyceraldehyde removal of the ketal protecting group led to the formation (Eq. 120) of the unsaturated lactone in acceptable overall yield... 

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