De Novo Asymmetric Synthesis of Anthrax Tetrasaccharide and Related Tetrasaccharide

Haibing Guo and George A. O’Doherty
Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506
J. Org. Chem., 2008, 73 (14), pp 5211–5220
DOI: 10.1021/jo800691v
Publication Date (Web): June 19, 2008
Copyright © 2008 American Chemical Society

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A de novo asymmetric approach to the natural product anthrax tetrasaccharide 1 and an analogue 2 with an anomeric hexyl azide group has been developed from acetylfuran. The construction of the tetrasaccharide was achieved by a traditional [3 + 1] glycosylation strategy. An iterative diastereoselective palladium-catalyzed glycosylation, Luche reduction, diastereoselective dihydroxylation, and regioselective acylation were employed for the assembly of the l-rhamno-trisaccharide building block. The anthrose building block also required a palladium-catalyzed azide allylation and a triflate inversion to set the gluco-stereochemistry in addition to Luche reduction and dihydroxylation.

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  • Published In Issue July 18, 2008
  • Article ASAPJune 19, 2008
  • Received: March 27, 2008

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