## Abstract Sodium cyanide in hexamethylphosphoric triamide selectively cleaves methyl esters in the presence of ethyl esters with yields of __ca.__ 80%. The mechanism of the reaction has been investigated. It consists of nucleophilic displacement by cyanide of the carboxylate ion from the alcohol
Mitsunobu reactions of glycals with phenoxide nucleophiles are SN2′-selective
✍ Scribed by Aditya Sobti; Gary A. Sulikowski
- Book ID
- 104214290
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 294 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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✦ Synopsis
The Clhydroxyl group of Lrhamnal( 4) and D-glucal7 underwent S,$!'-selective Mitsnnobu displacements with substituted phenoxide nucleophiles. These reactions provide access to the corresponding a-arylglycoside.
We required a method for the preparation of a-O-a@ glycoside of 2.3.6~trideoxy sugars in connection with planned syntheses of angucycline antibiotics. 1 A direct preparation starts with a substituted glycal and requires an allylic displacement of the C3-hydroxyl in preference to direct nucleophilic attack. This transformation would serve to eliminate the C3 substituent and simultaneously introduce an oxidatively
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