title: Neighboring group participation of 9-anthracenylmethyl group in glycosylation: preparation of unusual C-glycosides.
abstract: [reaction: see text] A coupling of 2-O-arylmethylated D-glucose-derived thioglycosides with various alcohols in the presence of DMTST as an activator is described. The requisite glycosyl donors are efficiently prepared by one-pot procedures. When the aryl groups are phenyl, p-methoxyphenyl, 1-naphthyl, and 2-naphthyl groups, a mixture of alpha- and beta-anomeric O-glycosides is obtained under the conditions, whereas when the aryl group is the 9-anthracenyl group, a highly stereoselective formation of the unusual C-glycosides in good yields via neighboring group participation of the 9-anthracenylmethyl group followed by coupling with a variety of alcohols is observed. Three new chiral centers including a quaternary carbon are created in one single step.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemistry and Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Suvarn S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Kulkarni
authors.forename: Yi-Hung
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Shang-Cheng
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Hung
mesh_terms: D006027:Glycosides / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D006031:Glycosylation
chemical_list: D006027:Glycosides