Preparation of Glycosyl Acceptor

SCHEME.—Syntheses of allyl glycosides of distal disaccharide units of GPLs from M. avium serovars 4 and 20 involving regioselective substitutions in the preparations of glycosyl acceptors. MPM = 4-methoxyphenylmethyl [p-methoxybenzyl] NPM = 2-nitrophenylmethyl [o-nitrobenzyl]. 

In an early example, Mukaiyama and coworkers used hetaryl onium salts for nucleoside synthesis. The active hetaryl onium salt is generated in situ from the reaction of 2-chloro-3-ethylbenzoxazolium tetrafluoroborate 77 and the glycosyl acceptor. With benzimidazole as glycosyl acceptor, the resulting 2-(l-benzimida-zoyl)benzoxazolium tetrafluoroborate 78 was obtained. The reaction between the hetaryl onium salt 78 and hemiacetal donor 1 occurs at 60 °C to activate the hemiacetal and thereby reveal the glycosyl acceptor. This procedure led to the formation of nucleoside 80 with exclusive 1,2-trans selectivity [139]. The nucleoside 81 was similarly prepared. Alternatively, 2-fluoro-l-methylpyridinium tosylate 79 directly... 

A typical procedure calls for reaction of the hemiacetal donor with dicydohexyl carbodiimide and copper(I) chloride (0.1 equiv) at 80 °C, followed by an addition of the acceptor and continued heating. As an early demonstration of this protocol, oc-riboside 86 was prepared in moderate yield but with exclusive stereoselectivity [141]. Further measures were required for the glycosylation of monosaccharide acceptors, such as addition of p-toluenesulfonic add (0.1 equiv) to promote the formation of disaccharide 87 [144]. The method was more suitably applied to the synthesis of O-acyl glycopeptides, as evidenced by the formation of 88 in 60% yield [143,144]. Various peptides with non-nudeophilic side chains were found to be amenable to this stereoselective reaction. The [3-selectivity was suggested to arise from a preponderance of the a-isourea intermediate 85 in the activation step. 

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