L-lyxose

The synthesis of diol 56 from L-lyxose is reported. Compound 56 constitutes a subunit of the toxin erythroskyrine <96JCS(P1)1323>. 

Before 1983, branched-chain sugars had not been found in bacterial polysaccharides, but there are now five examples belonging to this class. The LPS from Coxiella burned phase I contains both 6-deoxy-3-C-methyl-L-gulose (L-virenose) as pyranoside (12) and 3-C-(hydroxymethyl)-L-lyxose as furan-oside (13). Another 6-deoxy-3-C-methylhexose, having the manno configuration, is a component of the Nitrobacter hamburgiensis 0-antigen. ... 

Streptose is the first branched-chain sugar to have been identified as a component of a biological compound produced by a microorganism. This dicarbonyl sugar is known only in its derivatives. The chemistry of streptose and streptomycin has been lucidly reviewed by Lemieux and Wolfrom.1 In this article, it was noted that streptose must be either 5-deoxy-3-C -formyl-L-ribose or 5-deoxy-3-C-formyl-L-lyxose. Since then, the presence of the latter configuration (XXXIV) has been definitely established by Wolfrom and DeWalt,66 who found that N-acetyltetrahydrostreptobi-... 

Useful syntheses of D- and L-lyxose from 1,3-O-benzylidene-D- and L-arabinitol have been achieved through the highly selective oxidation of the primary hydroxyl groups by dimethyl sulfoxide-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide.463 Oxidation of but one of the two (equivalent) hydroxyl groups in 1,3,4,6-tetra-O-benzyl-D-mannitol464 and l,6-di-0-benzyl-2,5-0-methylene-D-mannitol465 was possible with dimethyl sulfoxide-acetic anhydride. 

The reaction of p-D-ribopyranose tetraacetate (63) with methanethiol and zinc chloride gave 32), after deacetylation, methyl 1-thio-p-D-ribo-pyranoside (64), methyl 1,5-dithio-p-D-ribopyranoside (72, R=H), 4-S-methyl-4-thio-L-lyxose dimethyl dithioacetal (77, R=H), and a small... 

The L-lyxose derivative was prepared from the anti-adduct 13a of 3-phenylpropanal as outlined below, and the absolute configuration was determined by comparison with the optical rotation of an authentic sample(lO) derived from D-lyxose. 

Fucosidase inhibiting l,4,5-trideoxy-l,4-imino-L-lyxitol (78) was prepared [124] from D-ribose via protected 5-amino-5-deoxy-L-lyxose (79) by a chemical route. This compound, as well as the 1-aminomethyl homologue (80), obtained by Kiliani-Fischer chain extension of (79), inhibited a-L-fucosidase with K around 2 pmol/1. l,4-Dideoxy-l,4-imino-D-iditol (81) [71] was found to be a moderate inhibitor of the enzyme. 

Barium D-ribose 5-phosphate pentahydrate75 2-Deoxy-D-cry[Pg.363]

C) Pentoses D-Ribose 24, 2-deoxyribose 14, D-arabinose 12, L-arabi-nose 12, D-lyxose 0, L-lyxose 0, D-xylose 0. 

L-fhreo-Pentos-2-ulose (9) was prepared by several procedures (see Scheme 3). In procedure A, D-galacturonic acid (14) was reduced with sodium amalgam to L-galactonic acid (15), which lactonized to L-ga-lactono-1,4-lactone (16) by removal of water. Treatment of 16 with ammonia in methanol afforded L-galactonamide (17) which, on oxidation with sodium hypochlorite, gave L-lyxose (18). Reaction of 18 with phenylhydrazine yielded the corresponding osazone (19) which, on hydrolysis, afforded 9. 

Hofmann C, Boll R, Heitmann B et al (2005) Genes encoding enzymes responsible for biosynthesis of L-lyxose and attachment of eurekanate during avilamycin biosynthesis. Chem Biol 12 1137-1143... 

South-American soil was a good source [54] of S. curacoi producing the antibiotic curamycin (58). This antibiotic also contains unusual saccharides, i.e. L-lyxose and 4-O-methyl-D-fucose. 

C-Glycosides. Thiophenyl glycosides undergo ready free-radical allylation with allyl- or methallyltri- -butyltin. Thus the L-lyxose derivative 1 reacts with allyltri-/ -butyltin under photochemical initiation to give 2 and 3 in the ratio 90 10. The reaction... 

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