The anomalous reactivity of the bis(dibutylstannylene) acetal of pentaerythritol: a case of triple activation

Pentaerythritol: A Versatile Substrate in Organic Transformations, Centralization on the Reaction Medium

BACKGROUND

Pentaerythritol (2,2-bis (hydroxymethyl) propane-1,3-diol) as white crystalline odorless solid has been synthesized in 1891. Pentaerythritol is multifaceted species in many compounds, which are wildly utilized in medicine and industry. Also, multicomponent reactions (MCRs) play a crucial role in organic and medicinal chemistry. Hence, in these reactions, pentaerythritol is a versatile substrate for the synthesis of many polyfunctionalized products, because of the presence of the neopentane core and one hydroxyl group in each of the four terminal carbons.

OBJECTIVE

The review describes pentaerythritol multicomponent reactions in the presence of different solvents in the reaction medium to produce various compounds including pentaerythritols. This review covers the literature relevant up to 2018.

CONCLUSION

It is obvious from the provided review that a great deal of research has been done in this field, utilizing various mediums (solvent-free conditions, aqueous media, and organic solvents) for the synthesis of the products of containing pentaerythritols. This classification is based on the importance of economic and environmental friendly reactions. Due to the whole aforesaid reports, some reactions required heat for their progress, and some others were accompanied by microwave or ultrasonic waves.

Selective chemistry of tripentaerythritol — Synthesis of acetals and their derivatives

Tripentaerythritol was converted efficiently into 2′,2′′:6′,6′′:10′,10′′-tri-O-cyclohexylidene-2,2,6,6,10,10-hexakis(hydroxymethyl)-4,8-dioxa-1,11-undecandiol (4) by the toluenesulfonic acid catalysed reaction with cyclohexanone in a mixture of N,N-dimethylformamide and benzene. Reaction of tripentaerythritol with benzaldehyde under similar conditions gave an easily separated mixture of the four possible stereoisomers. Structures of these stereoisomers were assigned based on 1H and 13C NMR chemical shifts using trends previously observed for the dibenzylidene acetals of dipentaerythritol, whose structures had been established unambiguously by X-ray crystallography. It was found that reduction of the mixture of benzylidene acetals to 2,6,10-tris(benzyloxymethyl)-4,8-dioxa-1,11-undecanediol could be accomplished using triethylsilane with ethylaluminium dichloride as the Lewis acid after a number of commonly used conditions for this transformation failed.Key words: pentaerythritol, tripentaerythritol, dipentaerythritol, acetals, benzylidene acetals, reduction.

Syntheses of monohydroxy benzyl ethers of polyols: tri-O-benzylpentaerythritol and other highly benzylated derivatives of symmetrical polyols

Symmetrical polyols can be converted into benzyl ethers with one free hydroxyl group in good yield by reaction of the monodibutylstannylene acetal with excess benzyl bromide in the presence of tetrabutylammonium bromide and diisopropylethylamine in xylene. The reaction pathway involves initial benzylation of the dibutylstannylene acetal to give benzyl and bromodibutylstannyl ethers; if a hydroxyl group remains unsubstituted, the latter ether ring closes and reacts further.

New potential dendritic cores: Selective chemistry of dipentaerythritol

Methods were developed to convert dipentaerythritol efficiently into di-O-benzylidene, di-O-cyclohexylidene, di-O-1-ethylpropylidene, and di-O-methylene diacetals. The known di-O-benzylidene acetal, considered to be a single isomer, was shown to be close to a statistical mixture of the cis,cis-, cis,trans-, and trans,trans-isomers. Structures were established by a combination of NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. Reaction of the di-O-benzylidene acetals with benzyl chloride and potassium hydroxide surprisingly gave good to excellent yields of the monobenzyl ethers. An explanation for this observation was advanced. The dibenzyl derivatives of the di-O-benzylidene acetals were formed by reaction of their dianions with benzyl bromide in DMF. Selective reduction of the di-O-benzylidene acetals with triethylsilane and boron trifluoride etherate gave 2',6'-di-O-benzyldipentaerythritol. A crown ether was formed in modest yield (12%) by reaction of the dianion of the di-O-methylene acetal with α,α'-dibromo-m-xylene in DMF. Key words: dipentaerythritol, pentaerythritol, acetals, dendrimer, selective benzylation, crown ether.

Recombinant (2-->3)-alpha-sialyltransferase immobilized on nickel-agarose for preparative synthesis of sialyl Lewis(x) and Lewis(a) precursor oligosaccharides

The specificity of recombinant (2-->3)-alpha-sialyltransferase (ST3Gal-III), expressed in baculovirus-infected insect cells, has been determined with various oligosaccharide acceptors and sugar-nucleotide donors using a fluorescence based assay. Recombinant ST3Gal-III tagged with a polyhistidine tail was immobilized on Ni(2+)-NTA-Agarose as an active enzyme for use in the synthesis of three sialylated oligosaccharides: (i) the divalent molecule [alpha-Neu5Ac-(2-->3)-D-Galp-(1-->4)-beta-D-GlcpNAc-O-CH(2)](2)-C-(CH(2)OBn)(2) (12); (ii) the dansylated derivative, alpha-Neu5Ac-(2-->3)-D-Galp-(1-->3)-beta-D-GlcpNAc-O-(CH(2))(6)-NH-dansyl and; (iii) the tetrasacharide alpha-Neu5Ac-(2-->3)-beta-D-Galp-(1-->4)-beta-D-GlcpNAc-(1-->2)-alpha-D-Manp-O-CH(3). Compound 12 was itself prepared from the divalent N-acetyllactosamine molecule built on pentaerythritol by a chemo-enzymatic route.