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TETRAHEDRON
Volume 61, Issue 28, Pages 6839-6853Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2005.04.060
Keywords
carbohydrate; relative reactivity; regioselectivity; open glycosylation; hydrogen bond; pyridyl ring; acetylation
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A novel concept of regioselective transformation of secondary hydroxyl groups in carbohydrates is presented. First, the relative reactivity of the free hydroxyl groups of onoprotected D-glucose derivatives was assessed using acetylation as a model reaction. As a result, acylation of these polyols gave it mixture of monosubstituted products in which the 3-O functionalized derivatives predominated. Novel hydrogen bond acceptor protecting groups were next designed to modulate the 4-OH and 3-OH reactivity in the hope to mediate higher regioselective transformations. A molecular modeling study later validated by spectroscopic analysis predicted additional intramolecular hydrogen bonds between the hydroxyl groups and pyridyl-containing protecting groups. Taking advantage of this induced hydrogen bond network. we achieved regioselective acetylation of the hydroxyl group at position 3 without protecting any secondary hydroxyl groups of the carbohydrate moiety. This designed protecting/directing group increased the nucleophilicity and the steric hindrance of position 3. As a result, optimization of the reaction conditions enabled the monoacetylation (not affected by steric hindrance) of 6-O-protected,glucopyranosides at position 3 and selective silylation (affected by steric hindrance) of position 2 in high isolated yields and regioselectivities. This result certainly opens doors to the regioselective open glycosylation of carbohydrates. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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