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Beenu Bhatt1, Robin J Thomson, Mark von Itzstein
1Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland 4222, Australia.
Abstract:
Two approaches are described for the synthesis of 2-acylamino uronic acid glycosyl phosphonates from readily accessible D-glucal. The first approach that entailed oxidation of the C-6 hydroxyl group followed by phosphonylation of the uronate 2-nitro-glycal, resulted in the formation of the β-L-gulo-configured phosphonate. Reversing the reaction order resulted in the exclusive formation of the β-D-gluco-configured phosphonate. In both cases the thermodynamic 1,2-trans-di-equatorial phosphonylation product is obtained.
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