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Highly stereoselective glycosidation of ribose solubilized in apolar organic media via host-guest complexation1

✍ Scribed by Yasutaka Tanaka; Chinmai Khare; Masaki Yonezawa; Yasuhiro Aoyama


Book ID
104228316
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1990
Tongue
French
Weight
242 KB
Volume
31
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-4039

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✦ Synopsis


Ribose complexed with resorcinol-dodecanal cyclotetramer via hydrogen bonding in Ccl4 undergoes highly stereoselective glycosidation with methanol to give methyl B-ribofuranoside under mild and neutral conditions.

Ribose can be solubilized in Ccl4 upon formation of a hydrogen-bonded 1:l complex with resorcinol-dodecanal cyclotetramer 1.3

An interesting and important application of this complexation is development of a new synthetic chemistry of unprotected sugars in apolar organic media.

We wish to report here that bound ribose undergoes glycosidation with methanol in a highly stereoselective manner.

Ribose actually exists as a cyclic hemeacetal, either six-membered pyranose (&) or five-membered furanose (2f), each of which has a pair of a-and 9-anomers.

l3 C NMR spectroscopy of A-ribose complex indicates that ribose is bound highly selectively in the a-pyranose form (2-a), the