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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 138, Issue 9, Pages 3175-3182Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b13384
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- W. M. Keck Foundation
- National Institutes of Health [NIH GM068649]
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We report a synthetic glycosylation reaction between sucrosyl acceptors and glycosyl fluoride donors to yield the derived trisaccharides. This reaction proceeds at room temperature in an aqueous solvent mixture. Calcium salts and a tertiary amine base promote the reaction with high site selectivity for either the 3'-position or 1'-position of the fructofuranoside unit. Because nonenzymatic aqueous oligosaccharide syntheses are underdeveloped, mechanistic studies were carried out in order to identify the origin of the selectivity, which we hypothesized was related to the structure of the hydroxyl group array in sucrose. The solution conformation monodeoxysucrose analogs revealed the co-operative nature of the hydroxyl groups in mediating both this aqueous bond-forming reaction and the site-selectivity at the same time.
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