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borane7b (the IJ fragment on the way to the GHIJKLMNO ring
system of maitotoxin) or by reaction with a Grignard reagent.7e
We have reported earlier that carboxymethyl glycoside
lactones (O-CMGLs,8 Fig. 1) are a family of bicyclolactonic synthons
offering access to various types of pseudo conjugates such as
glycoaminoacids hybrids,9 pseudo-disaccharides,10 pseudo-glycol-
ipids,11 several biologically relevant compounds12 including non-
ionic membrane imaging probes13 and functional glycopolymers.14
The OH-2 group of the sugar moiety, involved in the lactone func-
tion, is released upon lactone opening, and can subsequently be
functionalized leading in a short sequence to 1,2-bisfunctionalized
carbohydrate derivatives.8d,11b,c,12c,14b
Considering the readiness of the method and the importance of
C-glycosyl derivatives in general, we have explored its extension to
C-glycosyl targets, and we report hereafter our preliminary results
on the synthesis and the reactivity of new C-glycosyl bicyclic
lactones.
R2
R2
OAc
O
OAc
O
R1
AcO
R1
BnNH2
O
AcO
O
HO
X
X
NHBn
13: X = O, R1 = OAc, R2 = H
lactone opening
O
relative rate
1
11: X = O, R1 = OAc, R2 = H
3:
5:
X = CH2, R1 = OAc, R2 = H
X = CH2, R1 = OAc, R2 = H
0.12
1
0.2
12: X = O, R1
=
H, R2 = OAc
14: X = O, R1 = H, R2 = OAc
6: X = CH2, R1 = H, R2 = OAc
4: X = CH2, R1 = H, R2 = OAc
Figure 3. Compared rates for the opening of C-glycosyl versus O-glycosyl lactones
with benzylamine in the gluco and galacto series.
given by 1H chemical shifts of H-2 in the range of 4 ppm or lower,
whereas acetylated ones are over 4.2 ppm.
The case of benzylamine was used for comparing the reactivity
of the C- and the O-glycosyl lactones. The rate of the lactone open-
ing reaction was measured by 1H NMR spectroscopy, following the
disappearance of the H-3 signal of the starting lactone 3 and the
appearance of H-3 in amide 5. By comparing with the same reac-
tion using the O-glycosyl lactone 11, it was found that the opening
of the C-glycosyl lactones was ca. 8-fold slower (full data shown in
Supplementary material). The same measurements performed in
the galacto series (rate of formation of benzylamides 6 and 14 from
lactones 4 and 12) showed consistent results, though with a nar-
rower difference (5-fold) in the rates (Fig. 3). These rate differences
are difficult to fully interpret being possibly related to several
parameters (inductive effect of the oxygen atom versus its involve-
ment in the anomeric linkage, chair or partially twisted conforma-
tion of the lactone cycle), however these results suggest that, even
though less reactive than their O-glycosyl counterparts, the C-gly-
cosyl lactones exhibited sufficient reactivity to serve as promising
scaffolds.
The interest of the method for accessing more elaborated tar-
gets is illustrated in Figure 4, first with the preparation of conju-
gates by reaction of the new lactones with aspartic acid and
aminodeoxyuridine, leading to C-glycosyl glycoaminoacid hybrids
15 and 16 in 84 and 90% yields respectively, and C-glycosyl nucleo-
tide-sugar analogue 17. Aminodeoxyuridine, having two unpro-
tected OH groups, could also be used, leading to amide 18 in 63%
yield. In these cases, although no side product was clearly identi-
fied, we can hypothesise that the lower yields are due to compet-
itive transamidification of the 6-OAc group of the starting lactone,
as observed in the reaction of the O-glycosyl lactone with an
aminosugar.10 Finally, the ability for the C-glycosyl adducts to be
further functionalized at OH-2 was illustrated by the transforma-
tion of the galacto allylamide 10 and the gluco allylamide 9 to
the corresponding 2-carbamates, using octyl or dodecyl isocyanate,
Results and discussion
The C-glycosyl lactones were prepared in three steps from
peracetylated glucosyl or galactosyl bromides. Intermediate
C-glycosyl propanoates 1 and 2 [methyl 3-(3,4,6-tri-O-acetyl-a-D-
gluco- and galactopyranosyl)-propanoate]15 were obtained in 88%
and 74% yields, respectively, by anomeric radical addition to
methyl acrylate using Giese–Praly conditions.16 Applying a saponi-
fication-acetylation sequence led to the desired new C-CMGLs 3
(gluco) and
4 (galacto) in 70% and 68% yields, respectively
(Scheme 1). The carboxylate group released in the intermediate
C-glycosyl is first to undergo acylation forming a mixed anhydride
(not isolated) which is readily transformed into a lactone ring by
intramolecular reaction with OH-2, while OH-3, 4 and 6 are also
acetylated. The new lactones 3 and 4 were fully characterized,17,18
and exhibited a very typical 18 Hz geminal coupling constant for
the two hydrogen atoms of the CH2 next to the lactone function
indicating a rather rigid bicyclic lactone ring conformation, as pre-
viously found in the O-glycosyl systems.8
A short preliminary investigation of the ability of the new C-gly-
cosyl lactones to serve as carbohydrate ligation synthons was then
performed by studying their reaction with three simple amines,
benzylamine, allylamine, propargylamine, these two latter offering
wide potential subsequent uses.19 The expected amides 5–10, hav-
ing OH-2 free and all three other positions acetylated were
obtained in 88–94% yields (Fig. 2). The resulting amides exhibited
NMR shifts and coupling constants which suggest a close confor-
mational similarity with their O-glycoside counterparts previously
reported.8,9 Notably, clear evidence for the unprotected OH-2 is
R2
OAc
O
R2
OAc
O
O
1. NaOH
OAc
O
R2
R1
AcO
R1
MeOH-H2O
OAc
O
R1
NH
AcO
AcO
AcO
O
AcO
O
O
2. Ac2O, Py
O
AcO
N
O
HO
OMe
HO
O
N
H
H
NH
O
3:
1:
R1 = OAc, R2 = H
4: R1 = H, R2 = OAc
R
1 = OAc, R2 = H (gluco)
2: R1 = H, R2 = OAc (galacto)
CO2Me
MeO2C
RO
OR
15:
17:
R = OTBDMS
18: R = H
R1 = OAc, R2 = H
Scheme 1. Synthesis of the new C-glycosyl lactones.
16: R1 = H, R2 = OAc
OAc
O
AcO
AcO
OAc
O
R2
R1
AcO
19
OAc
O
R2
R2 OAc
O
O
OAc
O
AcO
AcO
O
R1
AcO
O
R1
AcO
O
O
NH
O
O
O
HO
NH
HO
HO
O
NH
NH
20
HN
NHBn
9: R1 = OAc, R2 = H
10: R1 = H, R2 = OAc
HN
7: R1 = OAc, R2 = H
8: R1 = H, R2 = OAc
5:
6:
R
R
1 = OAc, R2 = H
1 = H, R2 = OAc
Figure 4. Examples of C-glycosyl pseudoglycoconjugates and disubstituted systems
from C-glycosyl lactones.
Figure 2. C-Glycosyl amides from lactones benzyl, propargyl and allyl-amines.