Sodium—Liquid Ammonia Debenzylations in Nucleoside Synthesis1
Sodium—Liquid Ammonia Debenzylations in Nucleoside Synthesis1
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核苷合成中的钠-液氨脱苄基1
DOI:
10.1021/jo01035a525
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发表时间:
1964
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
L. Goodman
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作者:
E. J. Reist;V. Bartuska;L. Goodman
Accordingly the synthesis of III in quantity has become important both for further biological evaluation and for conversion to potentially useful analogs. The description by Glaudemans and Fletcher4 of the condensation of 2, 3, 5-tri-O-benzyl-D-arabinofuranosyl chloride (I) with 6-benzamido purine to give, after de-blocking, the desired/3-nucleoside (III) offered a practi-cal, direct route to III. However, the final step in the synthesis, the catalytic hydrogenolysis of the intermedi-ate II, was convenient only when small quantities of II were employed.An alternative technique for removal of the benzyl blocking group of II was sought and the use of sodium in liquid ammonia was investigated. The numerous ex-amples of debenzylation of S-and N-benzyl groups with sodium in ammonia made this a logical choice; sur-prisingly, however, there is virtually no mention in the literature of the use of this method for cleaving 0-benzyl groups. 5 Recent work in this laboratory6 789de-scribed the smooth removal of both the O-and S-benzyl group of 6-amino-3-0-benzyl-5-S-benzyl-6-deoxy-l, 2-0-isopropylidene-5-thio-L-idofuranose through the action of sodium in liquid ammonia. We wish to draw atten-tion to this method of O-debenzylation because of its convenience and its applicability in situations where previously described methods of O-debenzylation are. inappropriate. 7 It was possible to effect the conversion of II to III in high yield using sodium in liquid ammonia; this modification of the Glaudemans-Fletcher proce-dure4 is especially convenient for large-scale synthesis of III. The stability of the adenine ring to the action of sodium in ammonia is noteworthy; there are numerous references tothe reduction of nitrogen-containing heterocycles by this reducing agent. 9