Recent advances in glycosylation reactions
Recent advances in glycosylation reactions
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糖基化反应的最新进展
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1979
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P. Sinaÿ
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P. Sinaÿ
Several novel solutions to the efficient and selective preparation of glycosides are presented. Commercial tris(4-bromophenyl)aniumyl hexachloroantimonate, a one-electron transfer homogeneous reagent, nicely activates in acetonitrile various ethyl or phenyl S-glycosides having either participating or non-participating substituents at C-2 to give p-0-glycosides in good yield. In a variation on the theme, phenyl S-glycosides react with alcohols under mild electrochemical conditions to give the corresponding 0-glycosides. Azidoxanthates, prepared via a two-step sequence from various galactals, are efficient galactosyl donors for the steroselective synthesis of protected precursors of biologically important galactosamine-containing oligosaccharides. We have also discovered that anomeric enol-ethers, or the corresponding carbonates, are remarkably efficient glycosyl donors. Finally, a "non-orthodox" strategy based on the idocyclization of appropriate acyclic enol-ethers resulted in a novel approach to KDO-containing disaccharides. This last synthesis critically benefited from the use of the Tebbe reagent for the preparation of the key starting enol ethers. INTRODUCTION Simple, efficient and selective preparation of oligosaccharides is a central problem in carbohydrate chemistry. The historical publication of Koenigs and Knorr, in 1901, first introduced glycosyl halides as glycosyl donors (ref.l), and launched a method which -through a vast series of variations -has been by and large the essential one for a very long period of time (ref. 2, 3). The introduction of the orthoester procedure was probably the first important attempt to find an alternative to the Koenigs-Knorr method (ref. 4). This reaction has been refined over the years, mainly by the Russian School (ref. 5, 6). A subtle understanding of the chemical properties of the halogeno sugars resulted in 1975 in the development by Lemieux et aZ.(ref. 7, 8) of the halide-catalyzed glycosylation reaction which has been successfully applied to the synthesis of several blood group antigenic determinants. A limitation of this variation on the theme was the lack of reactivity with many "sugar alcohols" with weak reacting capacities, typically methyl 2,3,6-tri-0-benzyl-a-~-glucopyranoside (r f. 9) which has become, over recent years, a standard for evaluating the "road holding" of any novel glycosylation strategy. In 1978 we disclosed the imidate procedure (ref. lo), a novel alternative to the Koenigs-Knorr reaction. The disadvantage of our original procedure -a rather laborious synthesis of the glycosyl donor from a halogeno sugar -was circumvented by R. R. Schmidt et al. (ref. 11) and the imidate glycosylation reaction is now of much more use in the field. It is important to stress that the much higher reactivity of trichloroacetimidates compared to acetimidates may be detrimental to the a-selectivity. Indeed, the mild acetimidate glycosylation reaction is highly selective, a distinct advantage which should be kept in mind when dealing with sufficiently reactive acceptors. This research has probably contributed to moving further and further away from the time-resistant "paradigm" introduced by Koenigs and Knorr at the turn of the century. With the availability of efficient glycosyl donors paving at last the avenue to higher oligosaccharides of biological relevance, a practical difficulty soon emerged: in order to keep manipulation of complex oligosaccharide fragments to a minimum, and to fully explicit convenient synthesis, it appeared important to build blocks which could be directly transferred to an acceptor upon activation. Thioglycosides are now attracting considerable attention in this respect (ref. 12). They are stable under a variety of chemical transformations and can be activated by thiophilic reagents. Recent results obtained in the author's laboratory in the field of glycosylation are now being analyzed in this lecture which can be divided into four main topics. 1) Activation of thioglycosides with either TBPA+', a one-electron transfer homogeneous reagent, or via anodic oxidation (heterogeneous one-electron transfer). 2) Use of anomeric S-xanthates of 2-azido-2-deoxy-D-galactopyranosyl derivatives as efficient glycosyl donors. 3) Synthesis and use of anomeric enol-ethers, or the corresponding carbonates, as novel glycosyl donors. 4) Development of "non-orthodox" strategies for the synthesis of KDOcontaining disaccharides. 519