Reactions of nitro sugars. XII. A novel type of disaccharide synthesis
Nitro disaccharide methyl glycosides were obtained by base-catalyzed addition of partially blocked sugar derivatives having one free hydroxyl group, across the ethylenic bond in methyl 4,6-O-benzylidene-2,3-dideoxy-3-nitro-β-D-erythro-hex-2-enopyranoside (1) and its α-anomer (2). Thus, the addition of 2,3,4,6-tetra-O-acetyl-β-D-glucopyranose (3) gave blocked derivatives of sophorose, namely methyl 2-O-(2,3,4,6-tetra-O-acetyl-β-D-glucopyranosyl)-4,6-O-benzylidene-3-deoxy-3-nitro-β-D-glucopyranoside (4) and -α-D-glucopyranoside (5). Similarly, the use of methyl 4,6-O-benzylidene-3-deoxy-3-nitro-β-D-glucopyranoside (10) and its α-anomer (13) as addends led to 2 → 2 linked bisglycosidyl ethers; these were the methyl 4,6-O-benzylidene-3-deoxy-2-O-(methyl 4,6-O-benzylidene-2,3-dideoxy-3-nitro-D-gluco-pyranosid-2-yl)-3-nitro-D-glucopyranosides with the anomeric configurations β,β, α,α, and α,β (11, 14, and 15, respectively). Methyl 4,6-O-benzylidene-3-deoxy-3-nitro-β-D-mannopyranoside (12) was found to epimerize to 10 under the reaction conditions; therefore, interaction of 12 and 1 also gave the bis-β-D-glucosidyl ether (11). The L-enantiomer of 12 gave with 1 an optically inactive meso compound (16) possessing a β-L- and a β-D-glucosidyl moiety.