Name: regioselective o-glycosylation of nucleosides via the temporary 2',3'-diol protection by a boronic ester for the synthesis of disaccharide nucleosides
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This research was financed by grants-in-aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan (Nos. 15K00408, 24659011, 24640156, 245900425 and 22390005 for Shin Aoki), by a grant from the Tokyo Biochemical Research Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, and by the TUS (Tokyo University of Science) fund for strategic research areas. We would like to thank Noriko Sawabe (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science) for the measurements of the NMR spectra, Fukiko Hasegawa (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science) for the measurements of the mass spectra, and Tomoko Matsuo (Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science) for the measurements of the elemental analyses.

NOTE: All experimental data [NMR, infrared spectroscopies (IR), mass spectroscopies (MS), optical rotations, and elemental analyses data] of the synthesized compounds were reported in a previous paper51.
1. Procedure for O-Glycosylation Reactions
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The purpose of this manuscript is to show a convenient synthetic method to prepare disaccharide nucleosides using unprotected ribonucleosides without tedious protecting group manipulations. We report herein on the regioselective O-glycosylations of nucleosides via the temporary 2&#39;,3&#39;-diol protection by a cyclic boronic ester (Figure 1B)51.
The preparation of the cyclic boronic ester intermediate is...

Disaccharide nucleosides, which are conjugates of a nucleoside and a carbohydrate moiety linked via an O-glycosidic bond, constitute a valuable class of naturally-occurring carbohydrate derivatives1,2,3,4,5,6,7. For instance, they are incorporated in biological macromolecules such as tRNA (transfer ribonucleic acid) and poly(ADP-ribose) (ADP = adenosine diphosphate), as well as in some antibacterial agents and other biologically-active substances (e.g., adenophostins, amicetins, ezomycin)5,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19. Hence, disaccharide nucleosides and their derivatives are expected to be lead compounds for drug discovery research. The methodologies for the synthesis of disaccharide nucleosides are classified into three categories; enzymatic O-glycosylation20,21, chemical N-glycosylation5,9,16,22,23,24, and chemical O-glycosylation7,9,14,16,18,19,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37. In particular, chemical O-glycosylation would be an efficient method for the stereoselective synthesis and large-scale synthesis of disaccharide nucleosides. Previous research has shown that the O-glycosylation of 2&#39;-deoxyribonucleoside 2 with the thioglycosyl donor 1, using the combination of p-toluenesulfenyl chloride and silver triflate, affords the desired disaccharide nucleoside 3 (Figure 1A; Ar = aryl and PG = protecting group)38.
Following these results, we decided to develop the O-glycosylation of ribonucleosides applying the p-toluenesulfenyl chloride/silver triflate promoter system. While several examples of the O-glycosylation of partially protected ribonucleosides have been demonstrated7,9,14,16,18,19,24,32,33,34,35,36,37, the use of unprotected or temporarily-protected ribonucleosides as a glycosyl acceptor for O-glycosylation has been negligibly reported. Therefore, the development of regioselective O-glycosylation of unprotected or temporarily-protected ribonucleosides would provide a more beneficial synthetic method without protecting group manipulations of ribonucleosides. In order to achieve the regioselective O-glycosylation of ribonucleosides, we focused on the boron compounds, because several examples of regio- and/or stereoselective acylation, alkylation, silylation, and glycosylation of carbohydrate derivatives assisted by boronic or borinic acid have been reported39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50. In this article, we demonstrate the procedure for the synthesis of disaccharide nucleosides utilizing regioselective O-glycosylation at the 5&#39;-hydroxyl group of ribonucleosides via a boronic ester intermediate. In the strategy presented here, boronic ester intermediate 6 would be afforded by the esterification of the ribonucleoside 4 with the boronic acid 5, which allows the regioselective O-glycosylation at the 5&#39;-hydroxyl group with thioglycosyl donor 7 to give the disaccharide nucleoside 8 (Figure 1B)51. We also studied the interaction of a ribonucleoside and boronic acid by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, to observe the formation of a boronic ester. Esterification to make a boronic ester and a glycosylation reaction require anhydrous conditions to prevent the hydrolysis of the boronic ester and the glycosyl donor. In this article, we demonstrate the typical procedures to obtain the anhydrous conditions for successful glycosylation reactions for researchers and students not only in chemistry but also in other research fields.

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			<td style="width:119px;"></td>
			<td>Prepared&#160; Ref. 53</td>
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			<td style="width:255px;"></td>
			<td style="width:119px;"></td>
			<td>Prepared&#160; Ref. 57</td>
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			<td height="63" style="height:63px;width:241px;">4-Metylphenyl 2,3,4,6-tetra-O-benzoyl-1-thio-a-D-Mannopyranoside (a-32)</td>
			<td style="width:255px;"></td>
			<td style="width:119px;"></td>
			<td>Prepared&#160; Ref. 67</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:241px;">6-N-Benzoyladenosine (14)</td>
			<td style="width:255px;"></td>
			<td style="width:119px;"></td>
			<td>Prepared&#160; Ref. 54</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:241px;">2-N-Isobutyrylguanosine (16)</td>
			<td style="width:255px;"></td>
			<td style="width:119px;"></td>
			<td>Prepared&#160; Ref. 55</td>
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			<td height="21" style="height:21px;width:241px;">4-N-Benzoylcytidine (20)</td>
			<td style="width:255px;"></td>
			<td style="width:119px;"></td>
			<td>Prepared&#160; Ref. 56</td>
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regioselective o-glycosylation of nucleosides via the temporary 2',3'-diol protection by a boronic ester for the synthesis of disaccharide nucleosides

Disaccharide nucleosides, which consist of disaccharide and nucleobase moieties, have been known as a valuable group of natural products having multifarious bioactivities. Although chemical O-glycosylation is a commonly beneficial strategy to synthesize disaccharide nucleosides, the preparation of substrates such as glycosyl donors and acceptors requires&#160;tedious protecting&#160;group manipulations and a purification at each synthetic step. Meanwhile, several research groups have reported that boronic and borinic esters serve as a protecting or activating group of carbohydrate derivatives to achieve the regio- and/or stereoselective acylation, alkylation, silylation, and glycosylation. In this article, we demonstrate the procedure for the regioselective O-glycosylation of unprotected ribonucleosides utilizing boronic acid. The esterification of 2&#39;,3&#39;-diol of ribonucleosides with boronic acid makes the temporary protection of diol, and, following O-glycosylation with a glycosyl donor in the presence of p-toluenesulfenyl chloride and silver triflate, permits the regioselective reaction of the 5&#39;-hydroxyl group to afford the disaccharide nucleosides. This method could be applied to various nucleosides, such as guanosine, adenosine, cytidine, uridine, 5-metyluridine, and 5-fluorouridine. This article and the accompanying video represent&#160;useful (visual) information for the O-glycosylation of unprotected nucleosides and their analogs for the synthesis of not only disaccharide nucleosides, but also a variety of biologically relevant derivatives.

The results of the O-glycosylation of uridine 10 with thiomannoside &#945;-9 are summarized in Table 160,61. In Entry 1, the O-glycosylation of 10 with &#945;-9 in the absence of boronic acid derivatives resulted in the formation of a complicated mixture. In Entry 2, 10 and phenylboronic acid 11a...

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Protocol for the Solid-phase Synthesis of Oligomers of RNA Containing a 2'-O-thiophenylmethyl Modification and Characterization via Circular Dichroism

Protocol for the Solid-phase Synthesis of Oligomers of RNA Containing a 2'-O-thiophenylmethyl Modification and Characterization via Circular Dichroism

Solid-phase synthesis has been used to obtain canonical and modified polymers of nucleic acids, specifically of DNA or RNA, which has made it a popular ...