The use of catalytic methylrhenium trioxide (MTO) and urea hydrogen peroxide in room temperature ionic liquid for the hydroxyglycosylation with glycals in a domino fashion is reported. Excellent conversions and good selectivities for the epoxidation reaction were observed. Application to the synthesis of glycosylphosphates, good glycosyl donors, has been studied. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Catalytic Oxidation−Phosphorylation of Glycals: Rate Acceleration and Enhancement of Selectivity with Added Nitrogen Ligands in Common Organic Solvents
[GRAPHICS]The first general catalytic oxidation of glycals has been developed to afford useful glycosyl phosphates in high yield and selectivity in a domino process with the use of catalytic methyltrioxorhenium, urea hydrogen peroxide, stoichiometric dibutyl phosphate as nucleophile, and a substoichiometric amount of nitrogen ligands, such as pyridine or imidazole, in organic solvents.
Schmidt, Richard R.; Stumpp, Michael, Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, 1984, # 4, p. 680 - 691