Chemistry of 1,2-Anhydro Sugars

Authors

  • Gefei Li Department of Biomolecular Engineering Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University Aoba, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
  • Masato Noguchi Department of Biomolecular Engineering Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University Aoba, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
  • Kazunari Serizawa Department of Biomolecular Engineering Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University Aoba, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
  • Shin-Ichiro Shoda Department of Biomolecular Engineering Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University Aoba, Sendai 980-8579, Japan;, Email: shinshoda@tcn-catv.ne.jp

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2018.874

Keywords:

1,2-anhydro sugar, 2-chloro-1,3-dimethylimidazolinium chloride (dmc), Direct anomeric activation, Glycosyl azide, Glycosyl bunte-salt

Abstract

The 1,2-anhydro sugars are a class of valuable and versatile intermediates in carbohydrate chemistry. In the first part of this article, a review is given on preparation methods of 1,2-anhydro sugars that are suitably protected. Protected 1,2-anhydro sugars have been widely used as glycosyl donors for the synthesis of glycosyl compounds such as oligosaccharides and nucleosides. In the second part, a brief history and the chemistry of unprotected 1,2-anhydro sugars is described. In the past few years, our research group has developed protection-free methods for synthesis of glycosyl compounds through unprotected 1,2-anhydro sugars as reactive intermediates based on the concept of 'direct anomeric activation'. In this article, the one-step preparation of glycosyl compounds such as thioglycoside derivatives and glycosyl azides by using formamidinium-type dehydrating agents is presented. Furthermore, the initial results on the first detection of unprotected 1,2-anhydro sugar intermediates by NMR measurements are shown along with their full structure characterizations.

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Published

2018-12-19

How to Cite

[1]
G. Li, M. Noguchi, K. Serizawa, S.-I. Shoda, Chimia 2018, 72, 874, DOI: 10.2533/chimia.2018.874.