Use of sodium borohydride for assisted reduction of secondary mesilates of diallylaminoglycosides. A new pathway for synthesis of L-daunosamine

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)94758-0

Secondary mesylate in trans relationship with diallylamino group is reduced by means of a participation reaction affording deoxygenated aminoglycosides; for one of them this reaction is a new pathway leading to L-daunosamine.