Preparation and Transmetallation of a Triphenylstannyl ?-D-Glucopyranoside: A highly stereoselective route to ?-D-C-glycosidesvia glycosyl dianions

β-Selective C-Glycosylation and its Application in the Synthesis of Scleropentaside A

C-Glycosides are carbohydrates that bear a C-C bond to an aglycon at the anomeric center. Due to their high stability towards chemical and enzymatic hydrolysis, these compounds are widely used as carbohydrate mimics in drug development. Herein, we report a general and exclusively β-selective method for the synthesis of a naturally abundant acyl-C-glycosidic structural motif first found in the scleropentaside natural product family. A Corey-Seebach umpolung reaction as the key step in the synthesis of scleropentaside A and analogues enables the β-selective construction of the anomeric C-C bond starting from unprotected carbohydrates in only four steps. The one-pot approach is highly atom-efficient and avoids the use of toxic heavy metals.

Acyl Glycosides through Stereospecific Glycosyl Cross-Coupling: Rapid Access to C(sp3)-Linked Glycomimetics

Replacement of a glycosidic bond with hydrolytically stable C-C surrogates is an efficient strategy to access glycomimetics with improved physicochemical and pharmacological properties. We describe here a stereoretentive cross-coupling reaction of glycosyl stannanes with C(sp2)- and C(sp3)-thio(seleno)esters suitable for the preparation C-acyl glycosides as synthetic building blocks to obtain C(sp3)-linked and fluorinated glycomimetics. First, we identified a set of standardized conditions employing a Pd(0) precatalyst, CuCl additive, and phosphite ligand that provided access to C-acyl glycosides without deterioration of anomeric integrity and decarbonylation of the acyl donors (>40 examples). Second, we demonstrated that C(sp3)-glycomimetics could be introduced into the anomeric position via a direct conversion of C1 ketones. Specifically, the conversion of the carbonyl group into a CF2 mimetic is an appealing method to access valuable fluorinated analogues. We also illustrate that the introduction of other carbonyl-based groups into the C1 position of mono- and oligosaccharides can be accomplished using the corresponding acyl donors. This protocol is amenable to late-stage glycodiversification and programmed mutation of the C-O bond into hydrolytically stable C-C bonds. Taken together, stereoretentive anomeric acylation represents a convenient method to prepare a diverse set of glycan mimetics with minimal synthetic manipulations and with absolute control of anomeric configuration.

Rethinking Carbohydrate Synthesis: Stereoretentive Reactions of Anomeric Stannanes

In this Concept article, recent advances are highlighted in the synthesis and applications of anomeric nucleophiles, a class of carbohydrates in which the C1 carbon bears a carbon-metal bond. First, the advantages of exploiting the carboanionic reactivity of carbohydrates and the methods for the synthesis of mono- and oligosaccharide stannanes are discussed. Second, recent developments in the glycosyl cross-coupling method resulting in the transfer of anomeric configuration from C1 stannanes to C-aryl glycosides are reviewed. These highly stereoretentive processes are ideally suited for the preparation of carbohydrate-based therapeutics and were demonstrated in the synthesis of antidiabetic drugs. Next, the application of the glycosyl cross-coupling method to the preparation of Se-glycosides and to glycodiversification of small molecules and peptides are highlighted. These reactions proceed with exclusive anomeric control for a broad range of substrates and tolerate carbohydrates with free hydroxyl groups. Taken together, anomeric nucleophiles have emerged as powerful tools for the synthesis of oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates and their future applications will open new possibilities to incorporate saccharides into small molecules and biologics.

Reaction of Glyconitriles with Organometallic Reagents: Access to Acyl β-C-Glycosides

A new strategy for the synthesis of acyl β-C-glycosides is described. The reactivity of glyconitriles toward organometallic reagents such as organomagnesium or organolithium derivatives was studied, affording acyl β-C-glycosides in moderate to good yields. In this study, glycal formation was efficiently prevented by deprotonating the hydroxyl group in position 2 of the glyconitriles during the process.

Concise and Practical Synthesis of C-Glycosyl Ketones from Sugar Benzothiazoles and Their Transformation into Chiral Tertiary Alcohols

[Reaction: see text]. A collection of 13 unsymmetrical ketones, each one featuring a sugar (d-glucosyl, d-galactosyl, d-mannosyl, and l-fucosyl) and an aglycone moiety (phenyl, 2-thiazolyl, TMS-ethynyl, allyl, and 1-propenyl) was prepared by a uniform route based on the use of benzothiazole as a carbonyl group equivalent. Succinctly, C-glycosylbenzothiazoles readily prepared by addition of 2-lithiobenzothiazole to sugar lactones and deoxygenation, were subjected to a one-pot reaction sequence involving N-methylation of the heterocyclic ring by MeOTf, treatment of the N-methylbenzothiazolium salt with a Grignard reagent, and HgCl(2)-promoted hydrolysis of the benzothiazoline thus formed. The resulting ketones were isolated in yields varying from 35 to 80%. Treatment of the sugar ketones with various organometals containing the phenyl, 2-thiazolyl, TMS-ethynyl, or ethynyl group as a substituent afforded chiral tertiary alcohols. These addition reactions were highly stereoselective as observed by crude NMR analysis and isolation of a single epimer in high yield in each case examined. However, because of the complexity of the reagents involved, the stereochemical outcome of these reactions appears to be difficult to rationalize by simple classical steric models, thus, ab initio studies taking into account the role of the sugar fragment are advisable. An interesting synthetic elaboration of a propargylic alcohol containing the thiazole ring into a propargylic alcohol bearing the formyl and carboxylate groups is reported.

Stereospecific synthesis of alpha- and beta-C-glycosides from glycosyl sulfoxides: scope and limitations

C-Glycosides derived from alpha-L-fuco-, alpha-D-gluco-, beta-D-gluco-, and alpha-D-mannopyranose have been synthesized from the corresponding glycosyl phenyl sulfoxide through phenylsulfinyl-lithium exchange, to generate an anomeric carbanion, and subsequent reaction with a carbon electrophile. The reactions were stereospecific and proceeded with retention of the configuration at the anomeric center. Improved yields of C-glycosides were obtained by an inverse addition protocol. Trapping of the anomeric carbanion with aldehydes gave best results. Reaction with ketones, chloroformates, nitriles, and alkyl halides was also explored. Mechanistic aspects of the reaction are discussed.

Synthesis of the C-glycoside analogue of a novel sialyl Lewis X mimetic

Sialyl Lewis X (sLex) mimetics that can function as selectin antagonists have received considerable attention in connection with the development of novel antiinflammatory therapies. An interesting structure that emerged from the studies of the Wong group is the 1,1-Gal-Man disaccharide 2, reported to bind E-selectin 5 times more strongly than sLex. The C-glycoside derivative 3 is of interest both as a conformational probe for selectin binding and as a hydrolytically stable analogue. Herein we illustrate a novel methodology for beta-C-galacto-disaccharides in the synthesis of 3. The protocol has as a key step a novel oxocarbenium ion-enol ether cyclization to give a C1-substituted galactal.