Synthesis 2013; 45(4): 471-478
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1318106
paper
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Water-Dependent Reduction of Carbohydrate Azides by Dithiothreitol

Authors

  • Bozhena S. Komarova

    Laboratory of Glycoconjugate Chemistry, N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospect 47, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation, Fax: +7(499)1358784   Email: nen@ioc.ac.ru
  • Sofia S. Maryasina

    Laboratory of Glycoconjugate Chemistry, N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospect 47, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation, Fax: +7(499)1358784   Email: nen@ioc.ac.ru
  • Yury E. Tsvetkov

    Laboratory of Glycoconjugate Chemistry, N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospect 47, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation, Fax: +7(499)1358784   Email: nen@ioc.ac.ru
  • Nikolay E. Nifantiev*

    Laboratory of Glycoconjugate Chemistry, N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospect 47, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation, Fax: +7(499)1358784   Email: nen@ioc.ac.ru
Further Information

Publication History

Received: 01 November 2012

Accepted after revision: 21 December 2012

Publication Date:
18 January 2013 (online)


Graphical Abstract

Dedicated to Professor Genrikh A. Tolstikov on the occasion of his 80th birthday

Abstract

Dithiothreitol efficiently reduces carbohydrate azides in aqueous acetonitrile to give good-to-excellent yields of the corresponding amines or, after N-acetylation, acetamides. This reduction can proceed in either the presence or the absence of a base.

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