Oxidation of hemiacetal

The functions of flavoprotein enzymes are numerous and diversified.151-1533 A few of them are shown in Table 15-2 and are classified there as follows (A) oxidation of hemiacetals to lactones, (B) oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes or ketones, (C) oxidation of amines to imines, (D) oxidation of carbonyl compounds or carboxylic acids to a,(3-unsaturated compounds,... 

Oxidation of hemiacetals.1 Pyridinium dichromate in DMF effects a novel oxidative cyclization of the aldehyde 1 to the macrocyclic lactone verrucarin T (2a). The conversion is believed to involve cyclization to a hemiacetal (2b) followed by oxidation to 2a. Manganese dioxide does not oxidize 1, and a variety of other oxidants attack the dienic ester side chain. 

The oxidation of aldehydes to carboxylic acids has been most extensively investigated with horse liver alcohol dehydrogenases (65-67, 69, 73). There are two distinct reactions the direct oxidation of aldehydes as their hydrated gem-diol form [reaction (9)] and the oxidation of hemiacetals to esters [oxidative esterification, reaction (10)]. 

Reaction (10) Enzyme-catalyzed oxidation of hemiacetals to esters... 

A review on the use of tetraptt ylammonium pemithenate (TPAP) as a catalytic oxidant in conjunction with NMNO includes examples of its use in preparing fully O-protected aldonolactones by oxidation of hemiacetals, and other workers have also favourably compared the use of TPAP as opposed to other oxidants in similar oxidations leading to 0-ben l- and O-allyl-aldonolactones.3 A kinetic study has been carried out on the electrochemical oxidation of carbohydrates to aldonic acids. ... 

Conflicting findings have been reported with thiols and in one case a hemiacetal was dehydrated to a dihydrofuran. A by-product found in varying amounts in the oxidation of secondary, cyclic alcohols is the corresponding thiomethoxymethyl ether. 

The effect of a substituent may be substantially modified by fast, concurrent, reversible addition of the nucleophile to an electrophilic center in the substituent. Ortho- and para-CS.0 and pam-CN groups have been found by Miller and co-workers to have a much reduced activating effect on the displacement of halogen in 2-nitrohaloben-zenes with methoxide ion [reversible formation of hemiacetal (143) and imido ester anions (144)] than with azide ion (less interaction) or thiocyanate (little, if any, interaction). Formation of 0-acyl derivatives of 0x0 derivatives or of A-oxides, hydrogen bonding to these moieties, and ionization of substituents are other examples of reversible and often relatively complete modifications under reaction conditions. If the interaction is irreversible, such as hydrolysis of a... 

Fischer projections and, 977-978 glycosides of, 989-990 hemiacetals of, 984-986 osazones from, 1013 oxidation of, 992-994 phosphorylation of, 991 reaction with acetic anhydride, 988... 

A retroaldol fragmentation subsequent to the addition of p-TsOI I and a small amount of water to epoxide 206, obtained by oxidation of enol ether 205 with DMDO, resulted in the direct formation of dialdehyde hydrate 208, possessing the spirostructure necessary for the construction of the fused-rings core of ( )-ginkoli-de B. Apparently, hydrolysis of the epoxide produces the hemiacetal 207, which undergoes retroaldol fragmentation of the cydobutane to afford the dialdehyde, which forms the stable hydrate 208 (Scheme 8.52) [94]. 

This is supported by the observation that 0-labelled alcohol is cleaved to unlabelled /-butanol. Wiberg has given other examples of this type of cleavage, and has dealt with other complications such as further oxidation of products, formation of hemiacetals, etc. 

O-acetylophiocarpine (381) with ethyl chloroformate afforded the C-8—N cleaved urethane 382 in quantitative yield. Sequential treatment of 382 with silver nitrate, PCC, sodium hydroxide, and p-toluenesulfonic acid in ethanol furnished acetal 384, which was reduced with lithium aluminum hydride followed by hydrolysis to afford the hemiacetal 385. Oxidation of 385 with PCC provided (+ )-a-hydrastine (369). Similar treatment of O-acetylepi-ophiocarpine (386) afforded ( )-/J-hydrastine (368) however, in this case, C—N bond cleavage of 386 with ethyl chloroformate proceeded without regioselectivity. 

An interesting variant involves the use of an allylic alcohol as the alkene component. In this process, re-oxidation of the catalyst is unnecessary since the cyclization occurs with /Uoxygen elimination of the incipient cr-Pd species to effect an SN2 type of ring closure. Both five- and six-membered oxacycles have been prepared in this fashion using enol, hemiacetal, and aliphatic alcohol nucleophiles.439,440 With a chiral allylic alcohol substrate, the initial 7r-complexation may be directed by the hydroxyl group,441 as demonstrated by the diastereoselective cyclization used in the synthesis of (—)-laulimalide (Equation (120)).442 Note that the oxypalladation takes place with syn-selectivity, in analogy with the cyclization of phenol nucleophiles (1vide supra). 

The mild conditions offered by the approach of phosphitylation of the anomeric hemiacetals and subsequent oxidation of phosphites to phosphates suggest a very attractive alternative to the 1-0-lithiation method used in lipid A synthesis considering the complexity of the substrates. Indeed, an application of the phosphoramidite methodology was reported to be effective for the stereoselective instalment of the a-anomeric phosphate... 

The preparation of the title lactone has been described by a multistep synthesis from holarrhimine. The method described in detail above is essentially an application of the hypoiodite reaction published by Ch. Meystre and co-workers. These authors also describe the isolgition of the intermediate hemiacetal in pure form. Saturated lactones epimeric at C-20 have also been obtained by chromic acid oxidation of 18,20-dihydroxy compounds which were in turn prepared by treatment of 20-hydroxypregnanes with lead tetraacetate, acetolysis of the resulting 18,20 3-oxides, and hydrolysis. Saturated lactones of the... 

Primary alcohols 121 undergo an efficient oxidative dimerization by [IrCl(coe)2]2 under air, without any solvent, to form esters 122 in fair to good yields (Equation 10.30) [54]. The reaction is initiated by the in situ generation of an Ir-hydride complex via hydrogen transfer from alcohols to afford aldehydes, followed by the dehydrogenation of hemiacetals derived from alcohols and aldehydes by action of the Ir-complex to afford esters. 

In animals, ascorbic acid is synthesized in the liver from o-glucose, by a pathway that initially involves specific enzymic oxidation of the primary alcohol function, giving o-glucuronic acid (see Section 12.8). This is followed by reduction to L-gulonic acid, which is effectively reduction of the carbonyl function in the ring-opened hemiacetal. 

On treatment with IBD, tetraketones 213 are transformed to pyrones 215. This reaction probably occurs via intermediate cyclic ene-hemiacetal 214. In contrast, lead tetra-acetate (LTA), which generally behaves similarly to IBD, shows a different reactivity pattern in the oxidation of 213, thereby yielding the isomeric pyrone 216 (80TL1575 83JHC1389). 

Horton and coworkers104 have likewise shown that l,2 3,4-di-0-isopropylidene-a-D-gaZaeto-hexodialdo-l,5-pyranose exists exclusively as the hydrate in deuterium oxide, and that this compound remains partially hydrated in moist chloroform. As early as 1931, Wolfrom105 had shown that the formation of hemiacetals from aide-hydo sugars in hydroxylic solvents is a common occurrence. 

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