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Preparation and Reactivity of a Triphosphenium Bromide Salt: A Convenient and Stable Source of Phosphorus(I)
Published on: November 22, 2016
Preparation of THP-ester-derived pyridinium-type salts and their reactions with various nucleophiles
Hiromichi Fujioka1, Yutaka Minamitsuji, Takahiro Moriya
1Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, 1-6 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871 Japan. fujioka@phs.osaka-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
Nucleophilic substitution at the anomeric positions of tetrahydropyranyl (THP) and related carbohydrate-derived esters that proceeded through pyridinium-type salt intermediates have been developed. Treatment of the 6-substituted α-acetoxy-tetrahydropyrans with TMSOTf (TMS=trimethylsilyl) and 2-substitutited pyridines, such as 2-p-tolylpyridine and 2-methoxypyridine, led to the efficient generation of cis-pyridinium-type salts. These salts reacted with various nucleophiles, such as alcohols, azides, and organozinc reagents, to form nucleophilic-substitution products. A characteristic feature of these processes was that they took place under mild conditions, which did not affect acid-labile protecting groups. Furthermore, the reactions that employed azides and C-nucleophiles generated 2,6-trans products with high degrees of stereoselectivity.
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