Sugars alkaline hydrolysis

XVIII has now been excluded,42 since the methyl glycoside of the sugar reacts rather rapidly with one mole of periodate per mole furthermore, in contrast to the behavior of mycaminose (XXI), no moiety with one carbon atom less has been isolated from the products of periodate oxidation. Oxidation of mycarose with hypoiodite affords a crystalline lactone with the empirical formula C7H12O4 this observation eliminates the possibility of the keto structure XX. Thus, mycarose appears to be a 2,6-dideoxy-3-C -methylhexose (XIX). In the original compound, the isovaleryl group must be esterified to the alcohol function at C4, since the methyl glycoside isovalerate obtained from carbomycin is only attacked by periodate after alkaline hydrolysis. 

Anhydro ring formation in the sugar series takes place when certain derivatives are subjected to alkaline hydrolysis. These derivatives contain groups, the hydrolysis of which leads to the transitory formation of a... 

Alkaline hydrolysis splits the nucleotide into its phosphate and sugar-base residues. The sugar-base is known as a nucleoside. The nucleosides are named according to the type of base present. If a purine base is present it will end -osine, e.g. adenosine, while if a pyrimidine is present the name will end -idine, e.g. uridine. 

Other kinetically allowed mechanistic models, i.e. hydroxide ion attack on the monoanion, can be rejected on the grounds that the required rate coefficients far exceed that found for alkaline hydrolysis of phosphate triesters. At pH > 9 two new reactions appear, one yielding a 1,6-a.nhydro sugar by nucleophilic attack through a five-membered transition state of the 1-alkoxide ion upon C-6 with expulsion of phosphate trianion. The second is apparently general-base catalysis by 1-alkoxide of water attack on C-6 or phosphorus through greater than six-membered cyclic transition states. 

Pseudo-cc-DL-allopyranose (61) has been prepared from 54 by epimerization of the C-3 configuration as follows. O-Isopropylidenation of 54 with 2,2-dimethoxypropane gave l,2 4,6-di-0-isopropylidene-pseudo-a-DL-glucopyranose (56). On oxidation with ruthenium tetroxide and sodium metaperiodate, 56 gave the 3-oxo derivative (57), which was converted into l,2 4,6-di-0-isopropylidene-pseudo-a-DL-allopyranose (58) exclusively by catalytic hydrogenation under the presence of Raney nickel. Conven-. tional acetylation of 58 furnished the 3-O-acetyl derivative (59). Hydrolysis of 59 with aqueous acetic acid, followed by acetylation afforded pseudo-a-DL-allopyranose pentaacetate (60), which gave the free pseudo-sugar 61 on usual alkaline hydrolysis [22] (Scheme 13). 

Amosamine,86 isolated from the antibiotic substance amicetin produced by Streptomyces vinaceus-drappus, was shown, by methods similar to those used for other dimethylamino sugars in the series (namely, by periodate oxidation and by study of the rate of alkaline hydrolysis), to have the structure given in Table II. 

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