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Hydrogen Atom Transfer Experiments Provide Chemical Evidence for the Conformational Differences between C ‐ and O ‐Disaccharides
Author(s) -
León Elisa I.,
Martín Angeles,
PerézMartín Inés,
Quintanal Luis M.,
Suárez Ernesto
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
european journal of organic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1099-0690
pISSN - 1434-193X
DOI - 10.1002/ejoc.201000470
Subject(s) - chemistry , regioselectivity , glycosidic bond , disaccharide , pyranose , steric effects , hydrogen atom , stereochemistry , hydrogen atom abstraction , hydrogen bond , alkyl , hydrogen , molecule , catalysis , organic chemistry , enzyme
Abstract The glycopyran‐6‐ O ‐yl radical promoted hydrogen atom transfer reaction (HAT) between the two pyranose units of α‐ D ‐Man p ‐(1→4)‐α‐ D ‐Glc p and α‐ D ‐Man p ‐(1→4a)‐4a‐carba‐α‐ D ‐Glc p disaccharides provides supporting chemical evidence for the conformational differences between O ‐ and C ‐glycosyl compounds. In the O ‐disaccharide the 6‐alkoxyl radical, generated under oxidative or reductive conditions, abstracts exclusively the hydrogen at C‐5′ via a completely regioselective 1,8‐HAT reaction. This may be attributable to the conformational restriction of the glycosidic and aglyconic bonds due principally to steric and stereoelectronic effects. On the contrary, very little regioselectivity is observed in the homologous C ‐disaccharide and a mixture of compounds generated by 1,5‐, 1,6‐, and 1,8‐HAT processes where the abstraction occurs at hydrogen atoms positioned at C‐4a, C‐1′, and C‐5′, respectively, has been obtained. This study has been extended to simpler O ‐ and C ‐glycosides, where the aglycon was a straight n ‐alkyl alcohol tether of five atoms; in general, all of the results obtained are shown to be consistent with a major conformational flexibility of the C ‐glycosidic bond.