1241901-05-2Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Versatile and self-assembling urea-linked neosaccharides from sugar aminoalcohols
Bedini, Emiliano,Cirillo, Luigi,Parrilli, Michelangelo
, p. 1285 - 1296 (2013/02/23)
The increasing interest in urea compounds as self-assembling molecules, ion transporters and organocatalysts prompted several efforts towards synthetic urea-linked glycomimetics. In this frame we studied in details a novel two steps dimerization reaction of sugar vicinal aminoalcohol building blocks, opening a synthetic path to a series of urea-linked neosaccharides. Glucosamine neodisaccharide possessing an oxazolidinone-urea-oxazolidinone system could be transformed into both cyclic and higher linear neosaccharides. Furthermore, a series of six urea-linked glucosamine and galactosamine neodisaccharides was tested for self-assembling properties by measuring NMR spectra at different temperatures and concentrations as well as by gelation of several organic solvents.
A urea-linked glucosamine dimer as a building block for the synthesis of linear and cyclic neosaccharides
Cirillo, Luigi,Silipo, Alba,Bedini, Emiliano,Parrilli, Michelangelo
experimental part, p. 4062 - 4074 (2010/09/18)
A novel urea-linked glucosamine dimer was obtained through a modification of the standard oxazolidinone closure reaction on a 2,3-amino alcohol monomer and fully characterized by NMR spectroscopy and by molecular mechanics and dynamics techniques. A mechanism was proposed for the dimerization reaction that was based on the formation of a 2,3-bis[(p-nitrophenoxy)carbonyl] intermediate, Chemoselective manipulations on the orthogonal protecting group pattern of the dimer - especially on its unprecedented oxazolidinone-urea-oxazolidinone system - gave an alcohol building block that was useful for access to higher linear and cyclic neosaccharides, The conformational features and 3Dcharacterization of a novel carbamate-linked neodisaccharide macrocycle was accomplished through molecular mechanics and dynamics calculations.
