Unsaturated sugar derivatives

Unsaturated sugar derivatives are important and versatile intermediates for organic synthesis.20 Introduction of a double bond can result in the 

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The conversion of nitroalkanes to ketoximes can be achieved by the reduction with Zn in acetic acid,112 or Fe in acetic acid.113 Nitroalkenes are direcdy reduced into saturated ketoximes by these reagents, which are precursors for ketones (see Section 6.1.4 Nef reaction). Reduction of 3-O-ace-ty lated sugar 1 -nitro-1 -alkenes with Zn in acetic acid gives the corresponding 2,3-unsaturated sugar oximes in high yield, which is a versatile route to 2,3-unsaturated sugar derivatives (Eq. 6.58).114... 

Hirst and Woolvin169 preferentially methylated positions 3, 4 and 6 by the use of glucal, an unsaturated sugar derivative having a 1,2-olefinic bond, introduced by the reduction of triacetyl-a-D-glucopyranosyl bromide with zinc dust and acetic acid. By the action of an ethereal solution of perbenzoic acid on an aqueous solution of 3,4,6-trimethyl-glucal a sirupy product was obtained. This was shown to contain... 

The substituent in the /3-position to the carbonyl group in a fully substituted ketopyranose residue is, therefore, readily eliminated, regardless of whether the carbonyl group is at C-2, C-3, C-4, or C-6. When the carbonyl group is at C-4, the substituent at C-2 is eliminated in preference to that at C-6, provided, of course, that the leaving groups are otherwise similar. When the reaction is performed in an alcohol, unsaturated sugar derivatives are obtained, with the exception... 

Sugar derivatives that contain double bonds have been developed and used so extensively that they almost certainly constitute the most versatile category of carbohydrate compounds available for use in synthesis. They may be applied both in the synthesis of complex members of the family and of a myriad enantiomerically pure noncarbohydrate compounds—notably, many of interest in medicinal chemistry. Furthermore, some unsaturated sugar derivatives have themselves been found to possess important therapeutic properties. For example, the unnatural L-nucleoside 1 inhibits reverse transcriptase and shows potent and selective anti-AIDS activity,1 and the unsaturated neuraminic acid analogue 2 is the sialidase-inhibitory... 

Radical cyclizations based on tin mediation present an additional method for effecting intramolecular additions to unsaturated sugar derivatives, the processes commonly occurring with both regio- and stereo-specificity. 

L-erythronic acids, respectively, and D-xylose to D-threonic acid.44 Isbell et al. elucidated the mechanism of this process45 (see the following Chapter). Degradation to a lower aldonic acid can be achieved by oxidation of an unsaturated sugar derivative. The method of Reichstein et al.46 for the preparation of L-threono-1,4-lactone by permanganate oxidation of 5,6-0-isopropylidene-L-ascorbic acid was improved by Perel and Dayton to afford the crystalline lactone in 65% yield.47... 

Alternatively, Pd(0) adds oxidatively to the double bond of a glycal derivative resulting in the formation of a ir-allyl complex, which may react with carbon nucleophiles to give C-glycosides with a double bond between C(2) and C(3).26 A rt-allyl complex may also be formed starting from a Ferrier rearrangement product (2,3-unsaturated sugar derivative).22... 

In the previous subsection, it was shown that the Ferrier reaction offers an opportunity to convert glycal derivatives into unsaturated sugar derivatives, which have an isolated double bond between C(2) and C(3). The Tipson-Cohcn reaction is another important reaction for the introduction of isolated double bonds.29 In this procedure, a cis or tram diols are converted into disulfonates (mesylates or tosylates) which are reductively eliminated with sodium iodide and zinc in refluxing DMF (Scheme 3.6a). In this reaction, the C(3) sulfonate is substituted by an iodide, which then is reductively removed by zinc with concomitant elimination of the second sulfonate moiety, introducing a double bond. Stereoelectronic effects make nucleophilic substitutions at C(3) more favourable than similar reactions at C(2) (see Section 3.2.3). Probably, the elimination proceeds through a boat conformation. In this case, the iodide and tosylate are in a syn relation. In most cases, E2 elimination proceeds via a transition state involving an anti orientation. Nevertheless, syn elimination becomes the dominant mode of reaction when structural features prohibit an anti orientation. 

Unsaturated sugar derivatives can undergo a wide range of transformations, in particular, when an enone is involved.31 Examples include cyclopropanations, Diels-Alder cycloadditions and photohydroxymethyl-ation. Many of these reactions proceed with high regio- and stereoselectivity (Scheme 3.6c). 

Intramolecular substitutions offer a convenient and stereoselective method for the introduction of amino functionalities. A strategy for the preparation of vicinal m-hydroxy amino moieties entails the halocy-clisation of allylic trichloroacetimidates.77 Conversion of the hydroxyl of unsaturated sugar derivatives into a trichloroacetimidate, followed by Ar-bromosucciniinide (NBS) or JV-iodosuccinimide (NIS) mediated intramolecular cyclisation, gives bromo- and iodo-oxazoline derivatives (Scheme 3.13a). The oxazoline can be hydrolysed with mild acid to unmask the amino functionality, and the halogen can be removed by treatment with tributyltin hydride. 

Fully stereoselective allylic xanthate to allylic dithiocarbonate rearrangement was first observed with diastereomeric 2,3-unsaturated sugar derivatives 1 and 3 which on heating (140 UC for 1 to 2 h) gave the diastereomers of 3,4-unsaturated sugar dithiocarbonates 2 and 4, respectively43. 

Application of Claisen methodology led to a number of successful total syntheses of natural compounds. Thromboxane B2 has been synthesized from a 4,5-unsaturated sugar derived from D-glucose [126]. The Ireland-Claisen rearrangement [127] is also the key reaction used to control the introduction of the right wing of pseudomonic acids [128]. 

Many known addition reactions of sulfur-containing reagents to unsaturated sugar derivatives involve free radical processes. For example, when triacetyl-D-glucal 81 is treated with thio-lacetic acid in the presence of free radical initiators, the mixture of 2-thio-D-mannitol 149 and glucitol 150 is formed (O Scheme 67) [110]. 

Reactions of 2-formyl-galactal, presented as an unsaturated sugar derivative with push-pull functionalization, with guanidinium and amidinium salts, respectively were carried out imder basic conditions to furnish the substituted 5-( 1,2,4-tri-O-benzyl-D-lyxo- l,2,3,4-tetrahydroxy-butyl)pyrimidines 92 (Fig. 16). Treatment of the 2-formyl pentose glycals with 2-aminobenzimid-azole and 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole, respectively afforded 3-(l,2,4-tri-0-benz-yl-D-lyxo-l,2,3,4-tetrahydroxy-butyl)benzo[4,5]imidazo[l,2-a]pyrimidine 94... 

The n.m.r. data for 6-deoxy-6-fluoro-ot- and - D-glucopyranose obtained at 300 MHz in DjO has been reported with a discussion of chemical shifts and coupling constant values. N.m.r. data on the unsaturated sugar derivatives (5) and (6), as well as on some fructofuranose derivatives useful as intermediates in a new synthesis of sucrose, have been published. The complete elucidation of the H n.m.r. spectra of the 2,3-unsaturated glycosyl phosphonates of type (7)... 

Scheme 21 Illustrates the rearrangement of a phenylglyclne amide derivative of gluconic acid and its application to the preparation of an acyclic unsaturated sugar derivative. Likewise the 8-enose derivative (6I) was obtained from the corresponding uronic acid chloride.The same authors similarly produced hexadiene and derived Dlels-Alder adducts from D-gluconlc acid. ...

Direct Wittig reaction of Ph PCHCOn,Me with the four unsubstituted D-aldopentoses followed by acetylation provides convenient preparative access to acyclic seven-carbon trans-2.3-unsaturated sugar derivatives. These products served as dienophiles for a detailed comparative study in Diels—Alder cycloaddition with cyclopentadiene. Related syntheses afforded analogous cis-dienophiles. Cycloaddition under uncatalyzed thermal conditions gave mixtures of the four possible stereoisomeric norbornene adducts. The endo, exo ratios, and diastereofacial selectivities of the adducts were determined by NMR spectroscopy and by chemical transformations, supplemented by selected X-ray crystallographic analyses. Different distributions of isomers were encountered when a Lewis acid was used to catalyze the cycloaddition. The reaction can be controlled to provide preparative access to selected isomers and thus constitutes a versatile method for chirality transfer from the precursor sugar to four new asymmetric centers in a carbocyclic framework. 

The pentoses may be converted by the conventional sequence (5) of dithioacetal formation, acetylation, and demercaptalation into the respective aldehydo-oentose 2,3,4,5-tetraacetates, which afford by Wittig chain-extension (2) the desired dienophiles. Thus aldehydo-D-arabinose 2,3,4,5-tetraacetate reacted with Ph3PCHC02Me in boiling benzene to give 90% of the pure, crystalline E-unsaturated sugar derivative 6, and the corresponding enantiomer was likewise prepared from L-arabinose. 

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