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glycosyl ABz and n-Pen glycoside pair, Yu glycosylation
between ABz 4 (1.2 equiv) and n-Pen 5b (1.0 equiv) provided
the intermediate, which was further coupled with acceptor 17
(0.9 equiv) under the promotion of NIS and TMSOTf,
generating trisaccharide 30 in one pot with an 83% yield.
Trisaccharide motif 31 occurs in complex N-glycoprotein
structures with two challenging Gal-β1,4-GlcNAc and GlcNAc-
β1,2-Man linkages. Following the above similar procedure,
successive glycosylation of ABz 18, 4-OH n-Pen 13, and 2-OH
mannosyl acceptor 19 in the same pot afforded trisaccharide
31 in excellent 80% yield, which had been synthesized
previously in moderate 54% overall yield by a preactivation-
based one-pot method requiring low reaction temperature
(−60 °C to rt) conditions.11
protein structures, and a hexa-β-glucoside motif in phytoalexin
elicitor β-glucan structures had been highly efficiently
synthesized by this method, which highly streamlines the
chemical synthesis of oligosaccharides.
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Experimental procedures and characterization data
Finally, we investigated the multistep orthogonal one-pot
synthesis of oligosaccharides (Scheme 2). Sulfated derivatives
of tetrasaccharide 32 show significant proangiogenic activity.31
Selective activation of TCAI 1a (1.3 equiv) over ABz 2 (1.0
equiv) under the catalysis of TMSOTf provided the
disaccharide intermediate, which was further coupled with
disarmed STol 5a (0.9 equiv) under the catalytic amount of
PPh3AuOTf, affording the trisaccharide intermediate. The
above intermediate was further coupled with the acceptor 17
(0.9 equiv) under the promotion of NIS and TMSOTf to
generate tetrasaccharide 32 in one pot with an excellent 82%
yield, which had been synthesized previously in only 39%
overall yield by stepwise glycosylation.26 For the SBox
glycoside, glycosyl ABz, and n-Pen glycoside triplet, orthogonal
glycosylation between SBox 15 (1.2 equiv) and ABz 20 (1.0
equiv) under the activation of AgOTf produced the
disaccharide intermediate, which was followed by Yu
glycosylation with n-pen 5b (0.9 equiv), providing the
trisaccharide intermediate. The above trisaccharide was further
assembled with acceptor 17 (0.9 equiv) under the promotion
of NIS/TMSOTf, generating tetrasaccharide 33 in 75% yield
in one pot, which was comparable to the previous one-pot
synthesis of 33 with a 73% overall yield.19b Hexasaccharide
motif 34 occurs in fungal β-glucan oligosaccharide structures,
which could induce antibiotic phytoalexins in the soybean
plant.32 Selective coupling of PTFAI 9 (1.3 equiv) with ABz 7
(1.0 equiv) in the presence of TMSOTf afforded the
disaccharide intermediate, which was further glycosylated
with n-Pen 5b (0.9 equiv) under Yu glycosylation conditions
to generate a trisaccharide intermediate. Acceptor 23 (0.9
equiv) obtained from trisaccharide 22 was further coupled with
the above trisaccharide intermediate under the activation of
NIS and TMSOTf, producing hexasaccharide 34 in 67% yield
in a one-pot manner. The analogue of hexasaccharide 34 had
been synthesized previously by an automated solid-phase
method, which required an excess of each building block (15
equiv) for glycosylation reactions.4c
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The authors declare no competing financial interest.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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We are thankful for financial support from the CAS Pioneer
Hundred Talents Program (No. 2017-128) and the Start-up
funding of Kunming Institute of Botany. This paper is
dedicated to Professor Yongzheng Hui (Shanghai Institute of
Organic Chemistry) on the occasion of his 80th birthday. We
thank Professor Biao Yu (Shanghai Institute of Organic
Chemistry) and Professor Weiping Tang (University of
WisconsinMadison) for helpful discussions.
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In summary, we systematically investigated the orthogonality
of glycosyl ABz with the other leaving groups and developed a
new and highly efficient orthogonal one-pot method for
synthesis of oligosaccharides based on glycosyl ABz. This new
one-pot method solves such issues as aglycon transfers,
undesired interference of the departing species, and the
unpleasant odor inherent to the previously developed
thioglycoside-based orthogonal one-pot synthesis. Over a
dozen of oligosaccharides including an isoGb3 trisaccharide
analogue, a key intermediate of S. pneumonia type 3
trisaccharide, an α-Gal epitope trisaccharide, a Gal-β-1,4-
GlcNAc-β-1,2-Man trisaccharide motif in complex N-glyco-
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