Selective activation of glycosyl donors utilising electrochemical techniques: a study of the thermodynamic oxidation potentials of a range of chalcoglycosides
作者:Robert R. France、Neil V. Rees、Jay D. Wadhawan、Antony J. Fairbanks、Richard G. Compton
DOI:10.1039/b316720h
日期:——
A series of six chalcoglycosides (phenyl-2,3,4,6-tetra-O-benzoyl-1-seleno-β-D-glucopyranoside, phenyl-2,3,4,6-tetra-O-benzyl-1-seleno-β-D-glucopyranoside, phenyl-2,3,4,6-tetra-O-benzyl-1-thio-β-D-glucopyranoside, p-tolyl-2,3,4,6-O-benzoyl-1-thio-β-D-glucopyranoside, p-tolyl-2,3,4,6-O-benzyl-1-thio-β-D-glucopyranoside, and phenyl-2,3,4,6-O-benzyl-β-D-glucopyranoside) are voltammetrically interrogated in dimethyl sulfoxide, so as to determine their formal (i.e. thermodynamic) redox potentials. The electrochemical oxidation of the chalcoglycoside is shown to follow an overall EC-type mechanism, in which the electro-generated cation radical undergoes an irreversible carbon–chalcogen bond rupture to produce the corresponding glycosyl cation, which may react further. The kinetics of the initial heterogeneous electron transfer process and subsequent irreversible homogeneous chemical degradation of the radical cation are reported, with values for the standard electrochemical rate constant k0 in the order of 10−2 cm s−1 and the first order homogeneous rate constant, k1, of the order of 103 s−1. The formal oxidation potentials were found to vary according to the identity of the chalcogenide, such that OPh > SPh ∼ STol > SePh.
一系列六个硫醇糖苷(苯基-2,3,4,6-四-O-苯甲酰基-1-硒-β-D-吡喃葡糖苷,苯基-2,3,4,6-四-O-苄基-1-硒-β-D-吡喃葡糖苷,苯基-2,3,4,6-四-O-苄基-1-硫-β-D-吡喃葡糖苷,对甲苯基-2,3,4,6-O-苯甲酰基-1-硫-β-D-吡喃葡糖苷,对甲苯基-2,3,4,6-O-苄基-1-硫-β-D-吡喃葡糖苷,以及苯基-2,3,4,6-O-苄基-β-D-吡喃葡糖苷)在二甲基亚砜中通过伏安法进行检测,以确定它们的正式(即热力学)氧化还原电位。实验表明,硫醇糖苷的电化学氧化遵循一个总体的EC型机理,其中电生成的阳离子自由基经历不可逆的碳-硫键断裂,产生相应的苷阳离子,该苷阳离子可能进一步反应。报道了初始的非均相电子转移过程及其后不可逆的均相自由基阳离子化学降解的动力学,其中标准电化学速率常数k0约为10^-2 cm s^-1,一级均相速率常数k1约为10^3 s^-1。发现正式氧化电位根据硫醇基团的身份而变化,顺序为OPh > SPh ∼ STol > SePh。