Development of Highly Potent D-Glucosamine-Based Chiral Fluorescent Labeling Reagents and a Microwave-Assisted β-Selective Glycosidation of a Methyl Glycoside Reagent

Abstract

We synthesized new chiral fluorescence labeling reagents having a 2,3-anthracenedicarboximide group from D-glucosamine, and it was possible to introduce target alcohols at the anomeric positions of the reagents with β-selectivity by glycosidations. Especially, it was possible to use methyl glycoside reagent as a glycosyl donor with a Lewis acid and microwave irradiation, and it gave selectively β-glycoside while the reaction without microwave irradiation gave α- and β-mixed glycosides. Those reagents showed very high chiral discrimination ability, and they made it possible to separate the eight stereoisomers of 4,8,12,16-tetramethylheptadecanol by HPLC after derivatizations.