Contrary to expectations, many primary hydroxy groups are completely unreactive in glycosylation reactions, or give the desired glycosides in very low yields accompanied by products of many side reactions. Hydrogens of such primary hydroxyls are shown to be intramolecularly hydrogen bonded. Intermediates formed by nucleophilic attack by these hydroxyls on activated glycosylating agents may resist hydrogen abstraction. This resistance to proton loss is postulated to be the origin of the observed unreactivity. It is shown that successful glycosylations take place under acidic conditions under which such hydrogen bonds cease to exist. Accordingly, direct galactosylations of the normally unreactive 5′-hydroxyls of nucleosides were accomplished for the first time with a galactose trichloroacetimidate donor in chloroform under silver triflate promotion. It is noted that such galactosylated anticancer nucleosides may have improved biological specificity.
与预期相反,许多主要的羟基在糖基化反应中完全不活跃,或者以非常低的产率给出所需的糖苷,伴随着许多副反应产物。这些主要羟基的氢被显示为分子内氢键结合。由这些羟基对活化的糖基化试剂的亲核攻击形成的中间体可能会抵抗氢的提取。据推测,这种抵抗质子损失的现象是观察到的不活性的起源。研究表明,成功的糖基化反应发生在酸性条件下,这种条件下这种氢键不再存在。因此,首次利用三氯乙酰亚胺盐酸镓在氯仿中在三氟乙酸银的促进下,成功地对核苷的通常不活跃的5'-羟基进行了直接的半乳糖化。据指出,这种半乳糖化的抗癌核苷可能具有改善的生物特异性。