Synthesis 2024; 56(06): 966-974
DOI: 10.1055/a-2149-4586
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Emerging Trends in Glycoscience

C-5 Epimerisation of d-Mannopyranosyl Fluorides: The Influence of Anomeric Configuration on Radical Reactivity

Authors

  • Nicholas W. See

    a   School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
  • Gregory K. Pierens

    b   Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
  • Elizabeth H. Krenske

    a   School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
  • Vito Ferro

    a   School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia

We thank the Australian Research Council for financial support (DP220102493). N.W.S. is grateful to The University of Queensland (UQ) for a PhD scholarship.


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Abstract

The fluorine-directing effect has so far been exploited to provide short and efficient synthetic routes to rare l-ido sugars. However, the importance of anomeric configuration to its success has remained experimentally unverified. We now report on the synthesis of α- and β-configured per-O-benzoylated mannopyranosyl fluorides and initially show that their reactivity towards photo-bromination is strongly dependent on the anomeric configuration. The stereochemical basis of the fluorine-directing effect is then validated by revealing the striking difference in stereoselectivity observed for the free-radical reductions of the isolated 5-C-bromo sugars. This work importantly provides a synthetic route to a donor-functionalised derivative of l-gulose and reveals new insights into the behaviour of glycosyl radicals.

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Publication History

Received: 10 July 2023

Accepted after revision: 07 August 2023

Accepted Manuscript online:
07 August 2023

Article published online:
14 September 2023

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