## Abstract Starting with 5‐formyl‐6,7‐dimethyl‐5,6,7,8‐tetrahydropterine (II), a new synthesis of 5,6,7‐trimethyl‐5,6,7,8‐tetrahydropterine (III) is described. Thereby the chemical behaviour of the 5‐formyl group in II is investigated, in order to enable the unequivocal differentiation between for
Über Pterinchemie. 77. Mitteilung)Das (6R,S)-5-Formyl-6-methyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydropterin: Synthese, chemische und physikalisch-chemische Eigenschaften
✍ Scribed by Abhoy N. Ganguly; Jost H. Bieri; M. Viscontini
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 233 KB
- Volume
- 64
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0018-019X
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✦ Synopsis
(6__R,S__)‐5‐Formyl‐6‐methyl‐5,6,7,8‐tetrahydropterine: Synthesis, Chemical and Physico‐chemical Properties
(6__R, S__)‐5‐Formyl‐6‐methyl‐5,6,7,8‐tetrahydropterine (III), a model substance for the biologically important 6‐substituted 5‐formyl‐5,6,7,8‐tetrahydropterines, was obtained for the first time by formylation of the corresponding tetrahydropterine with formic acid. Compound III, analogously to the other known 5‐acyltetrahydropterines, exists in solution (except in DMSO) as a mixture of two rotamers IIIa and IIIb. The two H‐C(7) in III have the same chemical shift and the same coupling constant to H‐C(6), giving rise to a A,A',X,C‐system. Conformational analysis of III, based on its ^1^H‐NMR,‐spectrum, shows that the methyl group is pseudo‐axial and the formyl group pseudo‐equatorial. Moreover, the H(X)‐C(6) bond lies nearly in the plane bisecting the C(6)‐C(7)‐H(A), C(6)‐C(7)‐H(A') dihedral angle; the C(6) and C(7) lie outside the N(5)‐C(4a)‐C(8a) plane and the tetrahydropyrazine cycle must be extremely strained, according to Dreiding models.
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