De novo asymmetric synthesis of the anthrax tetrasaccharide by a palladium-catalyzed glycosylation reaction
De novo asymmetric synthesis of the anthrax tetrasaccharide by a palladium-catalyzed glycosylation reaction
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200701354
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发表时间:
2007-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
O'Doherty, George A.
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作者:
Guo, Haibing;O'Doherty, George A.
Anthrax is a zoonotic disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis.[1] Bacillus anthracis belongs to the family Bacillaceae, which consists of a diverse group of bacteria, all of which form endospores.[2] Bacillus anthracis is the most important member of this genus and is considered to be a potent agent for biological warfare. Its protective polypeptide capsule consists of poly-d-glutamic acid, which inhibits phagocytosis.[3] Recently, a tetrasaccharide made up of three l-rhamnose sugars and a rare sugar, d-anthrose, was isolated from the capsule (Scheme 1).[4] The uniqueness of the anthrose sugar and the resistance of carbohydrate structures to evolutionary change make the anthrax tetrasaccharide 1 an interesting target for anthrax detection and vaccine development.[5] Thus, synthetic access to this tetrasaccharide is desired.Recently, two carbohydrate-based approaches to the anthrax tetrasaccharide and one to a related trisaccharide have been reported.[6] In these routes the stereochemistry is derived from the known but less common sugar l-rhamnose (2) and the rare d-fucose (3). In contrast to these traditional approaches, we have been investigating de novo asymmetric approaches to mono, di-, and oligosaccharides.[7] Herein we