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NaBH3CN and other systems as substitutes of tin and silicon hydrides in the light or heat-initiated reduction of halosugars: A tunable access to either 2-deoxy sugars or 1,5-anhydro-itols
Bruyère, Isabelle,Tóth, Zoltan,Benyahia, Hamida,Xue, Jia Lu,Praly, Jean-Pierre
, p. 9656 - 9662 (2013)
UV light-promoted reduction of acetobromoglucose by NaBH3CN in t-BuOH afforded 1,3,4,6-tetra-O-acetyl-2-deoxy-α-d-arabino-hexopyranose in high yield and purity, via a Surzur-Tanner rearrangement, while, with 10 mol % thiophenol added, acetylated 1,5-anhydro-d-glucitol was cleanly obtained. Such tin-free and mild reductions, presumed to proceed via radical pathways, were more efficient with NaBH3CN compared to NaBH4 or NaBD 4, and do not occur with acetochloroglucose. Similar reductions to 1,3,4,6-tetra-O-acetyl-2-deoxy-α-d-arabino-hexopyranose were achieved upon heating to 80 C t-BuOH or CH3CN solutions of NaBH3CN and AIBN, but with a lower selectivity due to competing ionic reactions. With other pyranosyl bromides, reductions by NaBH3CN could be tuned similarly (d-galacto), but some (d-manno, 5-thio-d-xylo) gave mainly or exclusively 1,5-anhydro-itols. Other conditions, or reagents promoting SET process, afforded also reduced products, but with lower rates or selectivities. Primary iodides were reduced readily with NaBH3CN under UV light.
