Sugar tosylates

Sugar tosylates.1 Preparation of sugar tosylates of protected sugars by the usual method (TsCl, Py) is often slow and difficult. An alternative is reaction with 1, which proceeds at 25° in 5-150 minutes to give p-toluenesulfinic esters in yields generally > 80%. These products are oxidized in high yield to tosylates by m-chloroperbenzoic acid. The method is not useful in the case of anomeric tosylates, which decompose as formed. 

One trf the most popular methods of synthesizing anhydro derivative of monosaccharide containing a-oxide rings is the alkaline saponification [Pg.89]

Reductive elimination of sugar tosyl hydrazones using sodium hexamethyl-disilazide/LAH provides a route to various homochiral dioxolanes. Thus, D-xylose, D-arabinose and D-xylose derivatives 71-73 were converted to isopro-pylidene acetals 74-76, while D-xylose derivatives 77 and 78 provided 6-membered acetals 79 and 80, respectively. ... 

The conversion of ep>o triflates to ( clic sulphates is covered in Part 4 of this Chapter. Sugar tosylates, e.g. compounds (79) and (80), were hydrolysed to the parent alcohols in 65-84% yield by photolysis at 330nm in water-acetonitrile in the presence of hydrazine and a sensitiser (4,8-dimetho aphthyl propionic acid). ... 

Deoxy-D-jcylo hexose 6-(dihydrogen phosphate) (21) has also been synthesized (2) the reaction sequence makes use of 3-deoxy l 2,5 6-di-O-isopropylidene D-galactofuranose (16), a compound that can be easily prepared from D-glucose (2, 60). The mono-isopropylidene derivative (17) formed by partial hydrolysis of the di-ketal is converted into the 6-tosylate (18) by reaction with one molar equivalent of p-toluenesulfonyl chloride. From this the epoxide (19) is formed by reaction with sodium methoxide. Treatment of the anhydro sugar with an aqueous solution of disodium hydrogen phosphate (26) leads to the 6-phosphate (20)... 

Another deviation from the normal displacement reaction of primary tosylates occurs in nucleoside derivatives (39, 81) where cyclonucleosides and anhydronucleosides are formed by participation of a nitrogen atom (as in purine nucleosides) and oxygen atom (as in pyrimidine nucleosides ), respectively. Iodonucleosides can result from these reactions only if these cyclic compounds are prone to attack by iodide ion. Several new examples of unexpected reactions during the solvolysis of sulfonate esters in sugar derivatives have been recorded in the past few years (2, 4,5,7,15,44,62,63,94). 

Recent progress of basic and application studies in chitin chemistry was reviewed by Kurita (2001) with emphasis on the controlled modification reactions for the preparation of chitin derivatives. The reactions discussed include hydrolysis of main chain, deacetylation, acylation, M-phthaloylation, tosylation, alkylation, Schiff base formation, reductive alkylation, 0-carboxymethylation, N-carboxyalkylation, silylation, and graft copolymerization. For conducting modification reactions in a facile and controlled manner, some soluble chitin derivatives are convenient. Among soluble precursors, N-phthaloyl chitosan is particularly useful and made possible a series of regioselective and quantitative substitutions that was otherwise difficult. One of the important achievements based on this organosoluble precursor is the synthesis of nonnatural branched polysaccharides that have sugar branches at a specific site of the linear chitin or chitosan backbone [89]. 

Another example of the formation of a 3,6-anhydro ring by the saponification of a 3-tosyl-D-glucose derivative is furnished by the work of Peat and Wiggins11 who were able to isolate derivatives of no less than three anhydro sugars, one of which was 3,6-anhydro-D-glucose, from the... 

An anhydro sugar which will probably find extensive synthetic use has been described by Hann and Hudson.85 This is the tricyclic compound, 3,4 1,6-dianhydro-jS-D-talopyranose (LXXIV) which is prepared by the saponification of the 4-tosyl derivative of mannosan (LXXIII). 

Tipson devoted most of his years in Levene s laboratory accomplishing seminal work on the components of nucleic acids. To determine the ring forms of the ribose component of the ribonucleosides he applied Haworth s methylation technique and established the furanoid structure for the sugar in adenosine, guanosine, uridine, and thymidine. He showed that formation of a monotrityl ether is not a reliable proof for the presence of a primary alcohol group in a nucleoside, whereas a tosyl ester that is readily displaced by iodide affords clear evidence that the ester is at the 5-position of the pentofuranose. Acetonation of ribonucleosides was shown to give the 2, 3 -C -isopropyl-idene derivatives, which were to become extensively used in nucleoside and nucleotide chemistry, and were utilized by Tipson in the first chemical preparation of a ribonucleotide, inosinic acid. 

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