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Table 1
was chosen as a glycosyl acceptor (Scheme 1). Generally, most of
the glycosyl donors and promoter systems were tested in three sol-
vents: ‘neutral’ dichloromethane to reveal the intrinsic stereoselec-
tivity of a certain donor—acceptor—promoter combination, diethyl
Glycosylation of 3-trifluoroacetamidopropanol 4 by donors 1–3
Entry Donor Promoter Solvent Temperature
Product
(s)
Ratioa
(total
a:b
(°C)
yield %)b
ether which favors
a
-selectivity,13 and acetonitrile which facili-
tates the formation of b-glycosides.14 The results are presented in
Table 1. Modulation of the glycosylation stereoselectivity by per-
forming the reactions in the presence of various nucleophilic15a,b
or complexing15c additives was not studied in this work.
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
2
2
3
3
NIS,
TfOH
NIS,
TfOH
NIS,
TfOH
NIS,
TfOH
NIS,
TfOH
NIS,
TfOH
NIS,
TfOH
NIS,
CH2Cl2
Et2O
–35
20
5, 6
5, 6
5, 6
5, 6
5, 6
6
1:2 (88)
1:1 (95)
1:1 (95)
1:3 (95)
1:10 (95)
3
Et2O
0
(NIS–TfOH)-promoted glycosylation of 4 with acetylated donor
1 afforded an anomeric mixture of glycosides 5 and 6 in high yield
with a slight predominance of the b-anomer (entry 1). The same
4
Et2O
–35
–78
–35
–35
–35
–35
0
5
Et2O
reaction in diethyl ether demonstrated no increase in a-selectivity
but pronounced temperature dependence (entries 2–5). Lowering
the temperature resulted in better b-selectivity, which achieved a
rather high value of 1:10 at ꢀ78 °C (entry 5). The observed temper-
ature effect is in agreement with the published data.16 The reaction
in acetonitrile displayed the highest b-selectivity providing b-
linked glycoside 6 exclusively (entry 6).
(NIS–TfOH)-promoted glycosylation with perbenzoylated donor
2 produced a mixture of glycosides 7 and 8 with a somewhat
higher proportion of the a-product as compared to the acetylated
counterpart 1 (cf. entries 1 and 7; 4 and 8) that may be explained
by more effective remote anchimeric participation17 of the benzoyl
groups in comparison to the acetyl ones.18 Otherwise, the stereo-
chemical results obtained with glycosyl donor 2, including the sol-
vent effects (entries 8, 9), were similar to those with 1. Application
of the promoter system PhSeCl–AgOTf19 allowed for further
6
MeCN
CH2Cl2
Et2O
Only b
(88)
1:1 (92)
7
7, 8
7, 8
8
8
1:1.3 (78)
TfOH
NIS,
9
MeCN
CH2Cl2
Et2O
Only b
(75)
2.4:1 (95)
TfOH
PhSeCl,
AgOTf,
PhSeCl,
AgOTf
NIS,
10
11
12
13
7, 8
7, 8
9, 10
9, 10
0
3.3:1 (95)
1:1.5 (95)
1:1.6 (91)
Et2O
–35
20
TfOH
MeOTf
CH2Cl2
a
Anomeric ratios were calculated from the 1H NMR spectra of isolated mixtures
- and b-anomers by integration of their characteristic signals (see Supple-
mentary Data).
of
a
enhancement of
AgOTf)-promoted glycosylation in diethyl ether (entry 11) may
certainly be regarded as a preparative route to -glycoside 7 and
similar alkyl -glycosides.
a-selectivity (entries 10, 11). Thus, (PhSeCl–
b
Isolated yields.
a
rhamnoside 11 in dichloromethane was slightly b-stereoselective
and produced a mixture of disaccharide 12 and 13 in a ratio of
1:1.7 (Table 2, entry 1). The observed stereoselectivity was very
close to that in the glycosylation of acceptor 4 under the same con-
ditions (cf. Table 1, entry 1). b-Selectivity for the glycosylation of
11 could be considerably improved by lowering the reactant con-
centration22 (entry 2), however, the overall efficiency of the reac-
tion decreased. The same rather high b-selectivity was observed
for the glycosylation of 11 in acetonitrile (entry 5). Conversely,
the use of diethyl ether as the reaction solvent resulted in predom-
inant formation of
moted glycosylation of 11 with 1 in dichloromethane produced
somewhat more -disaccharide 12 than the same (NIS–TfOH)-pro-
moted reaction (cf. entries 1 and 6). As expected, [NIS–Bi(OTf)3]-
promoted coupling of 1 and 11 in acetonitrile provided good b-
selectivity, however, at the expense of the total glycosylation effi-
ciency (entry 7). The use of an inverse order of reagent mixing con-
sisting of adding the donor to a solution of the acceptor and
a
4,6-O-Benzylidene-protected donor 3 was also examined. It is
known20 that the replacement of acyl groups at O-4 and O-6 by a
benzylidene acetal enhances the reactivity of the glycosyl donor.
However, it turned out that the increase in the donor reactivity
did not affect glycosylation stereoselectivity. Thus, (NIS–TfOH)-
promoted glycosylation with 3 in diethyl ether demonstrated
almost the same stereochemical result as that observed for ben-
zoylated counterpart 2 (cf. entries 7 and 12). Application of less
reactive methyl triflate as the promoter, which might provide a
higher proportion of 1,2-cis-product,21 for glycosylation with 3
did not show any noticeable changes in stereoselectivity (entry
13).
a-product 12 (entry 4). [NIS–Bi(OTf)3]-pro-
a
Thus, glycosylation of the reactive primary alcohol with phenyl
2-azido-2-deoxyselenogalactosides features intrinsic b-selectivity
and becomes b-stereospecific in acetonitrile. Nevertheless, reaction
conditions providing good
(PhSeCl–AgOTf, Et2O) making these donors applicable for the prac-
tical stereoselective synthesis of both - and b-2-azido-2-deoxy-
a-selectivity have been also found
promoter allowed a two-fold increase in
a-selectivity (entries 3,
a
8) compared to the conventional procedure, that is, addition of
the promoter to a mixture of the donor and acceptor, but slightly
decreased the total yield of glycosylation products.
galactosides from reactive primary alcohols.
Then, glycosylation of methyl 2,3-O-isopropylidene-a-L-
rhamnopyranoside 11 was studied (Scheme 2). This acceptor is
As had occurred in the case of glycosylation of acceptor 4, appli-
cation of benzoylated donor 2 provided a higher proportion of the
often used in model glycosylations as a reactive secondary sugar
alcohol.13 (NIS–TfOH)-promoted coupling of donor
1
and
a-disaccharide (entry 9). Further increase in a-selectivity was
OR3
O
OR3
O
OR3
O
R2O
R1O
R2O
R1O
R2O
R1O
O
NHCOCF3
HO
NHCOCF3
+
+
N
N
N3
3SePh
3O
NHCOCF3
4
1 R1 = R2 = R3 = Ac
2 R1 = R2 = R3 = Bz
5 R1 = R2 = R3 = Ac
7 R1 = R2 = R3 = Bz
6 R1 = R2 = R3 = Ac
8 R1 = R2 = R3 = Bz
3 R1 = Ac, R2 + R3 = PhCH<
9 R1 = Ac, R2 + R3 = PhCH<
10 R1 = Ac, R2 + R3 = PhCH<
Scheme 1.