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Convenient preparation of thioglycomimetics: S- glycosyl sulfenamides, sulfinamides and Cite this: RSC Adv.,2017,7,32478 sulphonamides†
Arin Gucchait, Kuladip Jana and Anup Kumar Misra *
AseriesofS-glycosyl sulfenamide derivatives has been prepared in good yield from glycosyl thiols using N- Received 11th May 2017 bromosuccinimide (NBS) or N-chlorosuccinimide (NCS) as activator under significantly fast reaction Accepted 19th June 2017 conditions avoiding the use of hazardous reagents. Controlled and complete oxidation of the sulfenamide DOI: 10.1039/c7ra05339h derivatives under mild reaction conditions led to the formation of the corresponding sulfinamides and rsc.li/rsc-advances sulfonamides in excellent yield.
Introduction earlier reported reaction conditions, treatment of glycosyl thiols with diethyl bromomalonate or sulfuryl chloride followed by Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. 1-Thiosugar derivatives are useful intermediates for the prepara- reaction with amine did not furnish satisfactory yield of glycosyl tion of a variety of glycomimetics and pharmaceutically important sulfenamide instead diglycosylated disulde derivative was ob- compounds.1,2 Because of the extra stability of the anomeric tained as predominant product. Therefore, it is pertinent to carbon–sulfur bond they are resistant towards enzymatic hydro- develop novel reaction condition to overcome these shortcomings. lysis and thereby considered as useful intermediates in the design In searching for a better alternative, we envisioned that treatment of novel enzyme inhibitors.3,4 Over the years, a plethora of reports of glycosyl thiol with a halonium ion (X+) generating agent such as have appeared in the literature for the construction of glycomi- N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) or N-chlorosuccinimide (NCS) or N- metics and neoglycoconjugates in which 1-thiosugars have been iodosuccinimide (NIS) or carbon tetrabromide (CBr4) etc. could – This article is licensed under a used extensively.5 7 Among several glycomimetics developed so far, lead to the in situ formation of glycosyl sulfenyl halide interme- glycosyl sulphonamides, sulnamides and sulfenamides are diate, which on treatment with appropriate amine could furnish noteworthy. Although sulphonamide functionality can be found in glycosyl sulfenamide derivative and further oxidation of the product could provide glycosyl sulnamide and sulphonamide Open Access Article. Published on 27 June 2017. Downloaded 9/26/2021 11:29:22 PM. several compounds having therapeutic potential, most of them are aromatic in nature.8 Till date, only a few reports are available on derivatives. Reaction of simple alkyl and aryl thiols with N- the preparation of S-glycosyl sulphonamides. Poulsen et al.,9,10 and von Itzstein et al.11 prepared S-glycosyl sulfenamide derivative by the treatment of glycosylthioacetate with diethyl bromomalonate in the presence of an amine. In another report, Knapp et al.12 described the preparation of S-glycosyl sulfenamide from glycosyl thiol via the formation of glycosyl sulfenyl chloride generated in situ by the treatment with sulfuryl chloride followed by addition of an appropriate amine. In addition, S-glycosyl sulfenamide deriva- tives have also been prepared by the treatment of diglycosyl disulde with amine in the presence of silver salts.13 Earlier, Kahne et al. demonstrated the formation of glycosyl sulfenate interme- diates during the glycosylation reaction using glycosyl sulfoxides.14 In an ongoing program towards the preparation of glycomimetics, we were in need to prepare S-glycosyl sulfenamide derivatives and their oxidized products starting from glycosyl thiols. Following
Bose Institute, Division of Molecular Medicine, P-1/12, C.I.T. Scheme VII-M, Kolkata-700054, India. E-mail: [email protected]; Fax: +91-33-2355-3886; Tel: +91-33-2569-3240 † Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Copies of NMR spectra of Scheme 1 Previously reported reaction methodologies for the prep- compounds 4–31. See DOI: 10.1039/c7ra05339h aration of S-glycosyl sulfenamide derivatives.
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ndings on the treatment of glycosyl thiols with halonium ion followed by reaction with different amines to furnish glycosyl sulfenamides and their oxidized products (Scheme 2).
Results and discussion
In a set of initial experiments, it was decided to screen a set of halonium ion source, such as NIS, NBS and NCS for the generation of stable glycosyl sulfenium halide intermediate for its reaction with appropriate amines. In order to do so, compound 1 was treated with a varied quantity of N-hal-
osuccinimide in CH2Cl2 at low temperature and room temper- N Scheme 2 Preparation of glycosyl sulfenamide derivatives using - ature. Aer a series of experimentation it was observed that halosuccinimides in the presence of an amine and their oxidized treatment of compound 1 with NBS (1 equiv.) or NCS (1 equiv.) products. in CH2Cl2 at 40 C in the presence of piperidine resulted in the formation of expected glycosyl sulfenamide derivative (5)in Table 1 Halonium ion (X+) mediated preparation of glucosyl piper- 60% yield together with diglucosyldisul de (5a) in 25% yield idinyl sulfenamide derivative from compound 1 in the presence of within 2 min. Changing the reaction condition by the variation piperidine in a variety of solvents of temperature, time and quantity of reagents did not reect any further improvement in the yield of the product. Satisfactory yields of the corresponding glycosyl sulfenamide derivatives were also obtained using primary amines and aromatic amines
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. under similar reaction conditions. In contrast, treatment of compound 1 with NIS (1 equiv.) in the presence of secondary amines furnished poor yield of the corresponding sulfenamide Temp Time 5 5a derivatives and use of primary amines or aromatic amines led to Sl. no. Thiol Activator Solvent ( C) (min) (%) (%) the formation of disulde derivative only. In another experi-
1 1 NBS CH2Cl2 25 >2 0 92 ment, treatment of compound 1 with a combination of carbon 2 1 NBS CH2Cl2 40 2 75 20 tetrabromide (CBr4) (1 equiv.) and triethylamine (Et3N) in the 3 1 NBS CH Cl 60 5 75 20 2 2 presence of piperidine in CH2Cl2 at room temperature instantly 4 1 NCS CH Cl 25 2 0 94 2 2 led to the exclusive formation of disulde derivative instead of This article is licensed under a 5 1 NCS CH2Cl2 40 2 75 20 expected sulfenamide derivative. There was no improvement in 6 1 NIS CH2Cl2 40 2 30 60 7 1 NIS CH2Cl2 60 2 40 50 the formation of required product by carrying out the reaction 8 1 CBr4 CH2Cl2 40 2 0 95 at low temperature ( 10 to 30 C). A number of commonly
Open Access Article. Published on 27 June 2017. Downloaded 9/26/2021 11:29:22 PM. 9 1 NCS (CH Cl) 40 2 74 15 2 2 used solvents such as CH2Cl2, CHCl3, THF, DMF, toluene, 10 1 NCS CHCl 40 2 72 20 3 CH CN etc. were screened and CH Cl was found as the best 11 1 NCS THF 40 30 40 50 3 2 2 12 1 NCS DMF 40 15 15 70 solvent to furnish highest yield of the products. Detailed 13 1 NCS CH3CN 40 20 20 60 observation on the optimization of the reaction conditions is 14 1 NCS Toluene 40 120 25 30 presented in Table 1. A comparative study has been carried out for the formation of glycosyl sulfenamide from glycosyl thiols using the present reaction condition together with earlier re- ported conditions, which is presented in Table 2. It is note- 15 halosuccinimide was reported earlier by Abe et al. for the prep- worthy to mention that the present reaction condition has aration of N-alkyl or N-arylthio succinimides derivatives via in situ several advantages such as, signicantly fast, simple reaction generation of sulfenyl chloride (Scheme 1). We report herein our condition, good yielding, involves non-hazardous reagents
Table 2 Comparative studies for the preparation of glycosyl sulfenamide 4 using different activators in CH2Cl2
Sl. no. Thiol Activator Solvent Temp ( C) Timea (min) Timeb (h) 5 (%)
a 1 1 SO2Cl2 CH2Cl2 40 30 255 a 2 1 BrCH(CO2Et)2 CH2Cl2 20 20 12 65 — 3 1 NBS CH2Cl2 40 2 75 4 1 NCS CH2Cl2 40 2 — 75 5 1 AgNO3 CH3CN 20 — 24 35 a Time required for the formation of sulfenyl chloride. b Time allowed at room temperature aer the formation of sulfenyl chloride.
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