Osmium tetraoxide hydroxylation with

When 35 was heated in acetic acid containing hydrogen bromide, the tribromide 46 was obtained as a single product in 74% yield. Debromina-tion of 46 with zinc dust in acetic acid furnished the cyclohexene derivative 47, which was converted into compound 48 by osmium tetraoxide hydroxyl-ation and acetylation. The substitution reaction of 48 with acetate ions provided carba-a-DL-glucopyranose pentaacetate (49), which gave the carba-sugar 50 on hydrolysis. ... 

Overall, the reaction leads to addition of two hydroxyl groups to the double bond and is refened to as hydroxylation. Both oxygens of the diol come from osmium tetraoxide via the cyclic osmate ester. The reaction of OSO4 with the alkene is a syn addition, and the conversion of the cyclic osmate to the diol involves cleavage of the bonds between oxygen and osmium. Thus, both hydroxyl groups of the diol become attached to the sfflne face of the double bond syn hydroxylation of the alkene is observed. 

Hydroxylation of 16 with osmium tetraoxide and hydrogen peroxide, followed by acetylation, gave 5a-carba-/ -DL-gulopyranose pentaacetate... 

Analogously, for preparation of racemic carba-a-glucopyranose 49 from 52, esterification of (—)-52 furnished the ester 95, which was transformed into compound 96 by debromination with zinc dust and acetic acid. Stereoselective hydroxylation of 96 with osmium tetraoxide and hydrogen peroxide, followed by acetylation, gave compound 97. Lithium aluminum hydride reduction of 97, and acetylation of the product, gave pentaacetate 98, which was converted into 99 by hydrolysis. ... 

Starting from 149, novel carba-sugar pentaacetates of the P-L-allo (168) and a-u-manno (171) configuration have been synthesized. Reduction of 149 with diisobutylaluminum hydride (DIBAL-H) and acetylation gave a mixture of acetates 162 and 163. Hydroxylation of the mixture with osmium tetraoxide and hydrogen peroxide provided compounds 164 and 165 in the ratio of 9 1. Hydrolysis of 164 gave compound 166, which was transformed into 168 by a reaction analogous to that employed in the preparation of 157 from 153. 

Vinyl acetate had been hydroxylated by treatment with excess hydrogen peroxide in presence of osmium tetraoxide catalyst. An explosion occurred while excess vinyl acetate and solvent were being removed by vacuum distillation. This was attributed to the presence of peracetic acid, formed by interaction of excess hydrogen peroxide with acetic acid produced by hydrolysis of the vinyl acetate. 

A base-catalyzed, elimination reaction was a key step in a synthesis of D-ribose from L-glutamic acid.188 In that work, L-glutamic acid was converted, by a series of reactions, into 5-0-benzyl-2,3-dideoxy-D-glycero-pentofuranose (157) from compound 157, a mixture of glycosides was obtained which, on treatment with bromine and calcium carbonate, gave the monobromo derivative 158 as a mixture of diastereoisomers. Base-catalyzed dehydrobromination of 158 afforded the unsaturated derivative 159. Hydroxylation of 159 with potassium permanganate or with osmium tetraoxide gave a mixture of methyl 5-0-benzyl-/3-D-ribofuranoside and methyl 5-O-benzyl-a-D-lyxofuranoside. 

In turn, vinylacetic acid served17 for the synthesis of DL-erythrono-1,4-lactone (12). The starting compound was first hydroxylated by means of the barium chlorate-osmium tetraoxide reagent to 3-hydroxybutanolactone, dehydration of which with phosphorus pen-taoxide yielded isocrotonolactone, readily convertible with silver chlorate into 12. 

DL-Dihydrostreptose and its ribo isomer were similarly obtained. Birch reduction of 2-methyl-3-furoic acid, followed by addition of methanol, bromination, and dehydrobromination, gave 402 as a mixture of the isomers. Hydroxylation of 402 with osmium tetraoxide-so-dium chlorate, and subsequent treatment with acetone-sulfuric acid afforded three isomeric acetals (403-405). The structures of these compounds were assigned on the basis of their H-n.m.r. spectra. In addition, the relationship between 403 and 404 was established by hydrolysis and reglycosidation. The methyl esters 403-405 were quantitatively reduced to the corresponding alcohols. The mixture of alcohols obtained from 403 and 404 was converted into crystalline 5-deoxy-3-C-(hydroxymethyl)-l,2-0-isopropylidene-a-DL-ribofuran-ose (406), which was compared directly with a sample prepared from D-xylose. Methyl 5-deox y-3-C-(hydroxy methyl)-2,3-O-isopropy lidene-/3-DL-lyxofuranoside (407), obtained by reduction of 405 with lithium aluminum hydride, was hydrolyzed with dilute hydrochloric acid, to give a,/3-DL-dihydrostreptose.2,ifi... 

Spiro acetals can also be stereoselectively hydroxylated, in high yield, with osmium tetraoxide and a catalyst. The resultant diol is formed by. vyw-hydroxylation from the least hindered side of the alkene moiety (equation 21)121. 

Hydroxylation of alkenes with osmium tetraoxide is a syn addition. A racemic mixture of the 2R,3S... 

An alternate entry to the narciclasine class of alkaloids has provided access to compounds related to isonarciclasine (263) (Scheme 24). In the event, the aryla-tion of p-benzoquinone with diazonium salts derived from the aryl amines 250 and 251 yielded the aryl-substituted benzoquinones 252 and 253, respectively (146). The selective hydroxylation of 252 and 253 with osmium tetraoxide provided the corresponding m-diols 254 and 255. Catalytic hydrogenation of 254 and 255 using Pd/C or Raney Ni and subsequent lactonization gave the triols 256 and 257 together with small amounts of the C-2 a-epimers 258 and 259. Aminolysis of 256 and 257 afforded the corresponding racemic tetrahydrophen-anthridones 260 and 261, whereas similar treatment of the a-epimers 258 and 259 led to the formation of ( )-isolycoricidine (262) and ( )-isonarciclasine (263), respectively. 

A similar approach, but using hydroxylation with osmium tetraoxide, was applied for the preparation of 2-C-methyl-D-xylono-1,4-lactone (114), 2-C-methyl-D-arabinono-1,4-lactone (115), 2-C-methyl-DL-lyxono-1,4-lactone (116, for the D isomer), and 2-C-methyl-DL-ribono-1,4-lactone (112 for the D isomer).297... 

Hydroxylation of the olefinic bond is also a convenient route for utilization of the alkenes being considered. Treatment of alkene 26 with aqueous alkaline potassium permanganate resulted in formation of compound 45, the structure of which was established by a de-gradative procedure11. It followed from this result that the initial alkene (26) was the cis isomer. Treatment of alkene 28d with iodic acid in the presence of a catalytic amount of osmium tetraoxide, with propyl alcohol as the solvent, led918 to a mixture of two alditols (46). 

Alternatively, synthesis of compound 215 (4-epimer of 208) started by initial inversion of the OH group at C-l of 207 (Scheme 27).35,96,99 101 Acid hydrolysis of 207 gave the triol 209 (100%), which was identified as its tetraacetate 210, whose allylic hydroxyl group was selectively sulfonylated with mesyl chloride to afford 211, which was then converted into the acetate 212 (65%). On treatment with an excess of sodium acetate in DMF, 212 afforded 213 (60%). Oxidation of 213 with osmium tetraoxide gave, after acetylation, 214 and 216. Furthermore, epoxidation of 213 gave a single spiro epoxide 214 (64%), which was transformed exclusively into 216 (83%)... 

Lane BS, Burgess K. Metal-catalyzed epoxidations of alkenes with hydrogen peroxide. Chem. Rev. 2003 103 2457-2473. Schroder M. Osmium tetraoxide cis hydroxylation of unsaturated substrates. Chem. Rev. 1980 80 187-213. 

Hydroxylation of an alkene—the addition of an -OH group to each of the two alkene carbons—can be carried out by reaction of the alkene with osmium tetraoxide (OSO4). The reaction occurs with syn stereochemistry and yields a 1,2-dialcohol, or diol product (also called a glycol). 

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