title: Ring opening of nucleosidic 1',2'-epoxides with aluminum reagent: a new stereoselective entry to 1'-C-substituted ribonucleosides.
abstract: Dimethyldioxirane-mediated epoxidation of 3',5'-O-(di-t-butylsilylene)-1',2'-dehydro uridine (6) proceeded face-selectively to give 1',2'-alpha-epoxyuracil nucleoside (7). When 7 was treated with Me3Al, an anomeric mixture of the target 1'-C-alpha-methyluridine derivative 8 and its epimer 9 (86%, 8/9 = 5/1) was obtained. On the other hand, N3-protection improved the stereoselectivity in the ring-opening reaction. Thus, N3-benzyloxymethyl (BOM)-1',2'-epoxy nucleoside 11 obtained from 10 gave the target 12 as the sole product.
authors.affiliation: School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Showa University, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8555, Japan.
authors.forename: Kazuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Haraguchi
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kubota
authors.forename: Hiromichi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tanaka
mesh_terms: D017607:Aluminum Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D004852:Epoxy Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D007202:Indicators and Reagents / Q000737:chemistry*; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D017607:Aluminum Compounds; D004852:Epoxy Compounds; D007202:Indicators and Reagents