The Lattrell-Dax method of nitrite-mediated substitution of carbohydrate triflates is an efficient method to generate structures of inverse configuration. In this study, the effects of the neighboring group on the Lattrell-Dax inversion were explored. A new carbohydrate/anion host-guest system was discovered and the ambident reactivity of the nitrite anion was found to cause a complicated behavior of the reaction. It has been demonstrated that a neighboring equatorial ester group plays a highly important role in this carbohydrate epimerization reaction, restricting the nitrite N-attack, thus resulting in O-attack only and inducing the formation of inversion compounds in good yields. Based on this effect, efficient synthetic routes to a range of carbohydrate structures, notably β-D-mannosides and β-D-talosides, were designed by use of double parallel and double serial inversion. A supramolecularly activated, triggered cascade reaction was also developed. This cascade reaction is triggered by a deprotonation process that is activated by anions. It was found that the anions can activate this reaction following their hydrogen bonding tendencies to the hydroxyl group in aprotic solvents. / QC 20100709
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kth-9882 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Dong, Hai |
| Publisher | KTH, Kemi, Stockholm : KTH |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | Trita-CHE-Report, 1654-1081 ; 2009:2 |
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