The ability of the jack bean lectin concanavalin A (ConA) to bind seven membered ring (septanose) monosaccharides has been investigated by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) and saturation transfer difference (STD) NMR spectroscopy.
[reaction: see text] An S-phenyl alpha-D-idoseptanoside donor was used in the selective preparation of a series of alpha-D-idoseptanosyl glycosides. Glycosylation of a methyl beta-D-glycero-D-guloseptanoside acceptor with the new donor constituted the first synthesis of a septanose disaccharide.
A five-step preparation of carbohydrate-based oxepines from hept-1-enitols is presented. The hept-1-enitols were subjected to silyl protection and hydroboration/oxidation to give the protected heptan-1-itols. Swern oxidation of the homologated alcohols followed by sequential acetal formation/cyclization provided methyl 2-deoxyseptanosides that underwent elimination reactions to give the carbohydrate-based oxepines. The new sequence is an alternative to the ring-closing metathesis for the synthesis of carbohydrate-based oxepines from protected pyranose sugars. The product oxepines can serve as glycosyl donors in the synthesis of novel septanose carbohydrates. In addition, C-methylenealdehydo arabinofuranoside 16 was formed from 2-deoxyseptanoside 10 as the only product during protic acid mediated elimination reactions. This novel ring contraction complements other reported preparations of C-methylenaldehydo furanosides and underscores the acid-mediated reactivity introduced by competing eliminations between the C-1/C-2 and C-2/C-3 bonds.
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