Pyranoses syntheses from

Synthesis from exo-glycals. Several routes to C-l glycals from 1-exo-methylene pyranoses and furanoses have been described recently. 

Koenigs-Knorr reaction of, 990 molecular model of, 119, 126, 985 mutarotation of, 985-986 pentnacetyl ester of, 988 pentamethyl ether of, 988 pyranose form of, 984-985 pyruvate from. 1143-1150 reaction with acetic anhydride, 988 reaction with ATP, 1129 reaction with iodomethane, 988 sweetness of. 1005 Williamson ether synthesis with. 988... 

A similar approach had been described for the synthesis of the mycotoxin patulin (2,3-pyranose-fused unsaturated lactone) from a 2-arabinopyranos-2-uloside derivative,16 and more recently, for the synthesis of a potent germination stimulant and some analogous compounds from D-xylose or commercially available D-glucuronic acid y-lactone.17... 

The enzymatic synthesis of sucrose also throws light on the formation of the furanose form of fructose in the sucrose molecule. The fact that sucrose is directly formed from D-glucose-l-phosphate and D-fructose supports Isbell and Pigman s34 and Gottschalk s85 evidence that the latter monosaccharide occurs in solution in an equilibrium mixture of furanose and pyranose forms. This makes it unnecessary to postulate a special mechanism of stabilization of a five membered (furanose) ring before the formation of compound sugars containing the D-fructose molecule.86... 

It is of interest to consider in retrospect the logic of the chirality transfers involved in this synthesis. In essence stereochemical information was passed from the stereogenic center of SS to control the sense of emergence of the pyranose ring in compound 8. Eventually, at the stage of Z-enoate IS, stereochemical information is pass from the ring back to the double bond in the all critical osmylation reaction (9). 

Maddaford reported the diastereoselective synthesis of C-glycosides 29 using conjugate addition catalyzed by cationic rhodium catalysts such as [Rh(COD)2]BF4 (Eq. 1) [24]. Addition of phosphine hgands to the reaction system inhibited the conjugate addition. It is likely that the enone 28 derived from the pyranose is less reactive toward the conjugate addition. 

Parker has outlined an elegant, enantioselective synthesis of L-vancosamine derivatives commencing from noncarbohydrate precursors (Scheme 17.38) [116]. This approach features a diastereoselective allenylstannane addition and W(CO)5-catalyzed cycloisomerization to construct the pyranose core. Oxidative cyclization of the C4-carba-mate 128 is performed with 10 mol% Rh2(OAc)4 and proceeds stereospecifically to give the crystalline oxazolidinone 129 (86%). All told, synthesis of this useful L-vancosa-mine glycal equivalent covers seven steps from (S)-(-)-ethyl lactate 127 and is accomplished in 44% overall yield. 

Fig. 31. Synthesis of 2-deoxy-2,2-difluoro-D-ribose from o-pyranoses [96],...

The first synthesis of octa-0-acetyl-/3-maltose was reported by Le-mieux10 in 1953. When 1,2,3,6-tetra-0-acetyl-/3-D-glucopyranose was heated with 3,4,6-tri-0-acetyl-l,2-anhydro-a-D-glucopyranose for 13 h at 100°, it gave a mixture from which the product was isolated, after acetylation, in 8.7% yield. Octa-0-acetyl-/3-maltose has been obtained in 43.6% yield by way of condensation of 3,4,6-tri-0-acetyl-2-0-ben-zyl-/3-D-glucopyranosyl chloride with l,2,3,6-tetra-0-acetyl-/3-D-gluco-pyranose.11... 

Among the classic methods for the extension of the aldose chain by one carbon atom from the reducing end [9J, the Kiliani-Fischer cyanohydrin synthesis [10] is a milestone in carbohydrate chemistry. However after 110 years from discovery and numerous applications [11], including the preparation of carbon and hydrogen isotopically labeled compounds for mechanistic and structural studies [12], there are still several drawbacks that make the method impractical. These are the low and variable degree of selectivity and the harsh reaction conditions that are required to reveal the aldose from either the aldonic acid or directly from the cyanohydrin. Synthetic applications that have appeared in recent times confirmed these limitations. For instance, a quite low selectivity was registered [13] in the addition of the cyanide ion to the D-ga/acfo-hexodialdo-l,5-pyranose derivative 1... 

N. K. Khare, R. K. Sood, and G. O. Aspinall, Diastereoselectivity in the synthesis of D-g/ycero-D-aldoheptoses by 2-(trimethylsilyl)thiazole homologation from hexodialdo-1,5-pyranose derivatives, Can. J. Chem. 72 237 (1994). 

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