861600-08-0Relevant articles and documents
Reactions of Relevance to the Chemistry of Aminoglycoside Antibiotics. Part 14. A Useful Radical-deamination Reaction
Barton, Derek H. R.,Bringmann, Gerhard,Lamotte, Genevieve,Motherwell, William B.,Motherwell, Robyn S. Hay,Porter, Alexander E. A.
, p. 2657 - 2664 (1980)
Primary, secondary, and tertiary aliphatic or alicyclic isocyanides are smoothly reduced under radical conditions using tri-n-butylstannane to the corresponding hydrocarbons.The relative ease of reduction is tertiary > secondary > primary.Aromatic isocyanides are not reduced under these conditions.The reduction of isothiocyanates (or isoselenocyanates) by tri-n-butylstannanae also affords hydrocarbons, but here the isocyanides have been shown to be intermediates.The reduction of a compound with isocyanide and xanthate functions in a 1,2-relationship gives a smooth radical fragmentation to furnish an olefin.An efficient synthesis of 2-deoxy-D-glucose starting with glucosamine is described.
