title: 2-(Hydroxycarbonyl)benzyl glycosides: a novel type of glycosyl donors for highly efficient beta-mannopyranosylation and oligosaccharide synthesis by latent-active glycosylation.
abstract: 2-(Benzyloxycarbonyl)benzyl (BCB) glycosides were prepared by coupling of the corresponding tetraacetylglycosyl bromides and benzyl 2-(hydroxymethyl)benzoate. The BCB glycosides were converted almost quantitatively into the corresponding 2-(hydroxycarbonyl)benzyl (HCB) glycosides by selective hydrogenolysis of the benzyl ester functionality without affecting the benzylidene acetal and the benzyl ether. Treatment of the HCB 4,6-O-benzylidenemannopyranoside 4 with triflic anhydride in the presence of di-tert-butylmethylpyridine and subsequent addition of the glycosyl acceptor having a primary hydroxyl group afforded exclusively the disaccharide of the beta-mannopyranosyl linkage. Glycosylation of the compound 4 with secondary and tertiary alcohols also provided beta-mannopyranosides as the major products. Glycosylation of the HCB 4,6-O-cyclohexylidenemannoside 5 with primary alcohols was also highly beta-selective, and the HCB 2,3-O-cyclohexylidenemannoside 6 exhibited the moderate beta-selectivity. On the other hand, unlike the HCB mannosides, the HCB 4,6-O-benzylideneglucoside 7 gave exclusively the disaccharides of the alpha-glycopyranosyl linkage in the glycosylation with primary alcohols. The latent BCB-disaccharide 23, which was obtained from the HCB mannoside 4 as the donor and the BCB glucoside 12 as the acceptor by the present glycosylation method, was converted into the active HCB-disaccharide 39 by selective hydrogenolysis. Repetitive glycosylation of the donor 39 with the same acceptor 12 afforded the BCB-trisaccharide 40. Other BCB-trisaccharides 42 and 46 were also efficiently synthesized by employing the present methodology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea. kwan@yonsei.ac.kr
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Y J
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Y J
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D006027:Glycosides / Q000737:chemistry*; D006031:Glycosylation; D008358:Mannose / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000138:chemical synthesis*
chemical_list: D006027:Glycosides; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D008358:Mannose