An Unusual Course of a Nitro Sugar Acetylation: Formation of a Crystalline Nitronic Acid – Acetic Acid Mixed Anhydride
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Whereas acetylation of methyl 4,6-O-benzylidene-3-deoxy-3-nitro-β-D-mannopyranoside (1) and its β-D-galacto isomer 2 with acetyl chloride and triethylamine in ether furnished the expected 2-O-acetylated nitro glycosides, 1a and 2a, the same method applied to the α-D-talo isomer 3 gave the 2-O-acetyl derivative of the corresponding nitronic acid – acetic acid anhydride, 4.