Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1387692 | Carbohydrate Research | 2016 | 5 Pages |
•Heptosides are important bacterial carbohydrates associated with key cellular functions.•Heptosides are involved in the pathogenicity and the virulence of some important infectious agents.•Multi-gram scale synthesis of L,D-mannoheptose, a key component of Lipopolysaccharide.•Clickable heptosides as interesting molecular tools for generating libraries of heptose mimetics.•Heptose glycomimetics.
An efficient multigram-scale synthesis of methyl 2,3,4,6-tetra-O-benzyl-l-glycero-α-d-manno-heptopyranoside from methyl 2,3,4-tri-O-benzyl-α-d-mannopyranoside is reported. It involves a sequence of Swern oxidation, Grignard addition and Fleming-Tamao reactions. The resulting scaffold was used as a precursor to design a small library of clickable l-heptosides. This study shows that the use of mercuric bistrifluoroacetate is required both to accelerate and to cleanly perform the Fleming-Tamao oxidation, without side-reactions.
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