1-Propenyl 2-acetamido-3,4,6-tri- O-acetyl-2-deoxy-α- and β- d-glucopyranosides ( 3α, 3β) were obtained by the successive isomerization and acetylation of the known allyl glycosides 1α and 1β. The allyl glycosides were also converted, via their benzylidene 4,6-acetals, into the 4,6-di- O-benzyl-3- O-(2-butenyl) derivatives 9α and 9β. The simultaneous decrotylation and isomerization of 9β, followed by acetylation, gave 1-propenyl 2-acetamido-3- O-acetyl-4,6-di- O-benzyl-2-deoxy-β- d-glucopyranoside ( 11). The 4- O-acetyl-3,6-di- O-benzyl isomer ( 18) of 11 was synthesized from 1β by a route involving selective, partial benzoylation, and then protection of O-4 as the 2-tetrahydropyranyl ether. As previously described, the 1-propenyl β-glycosides 3β, 11, and 18, and the tri- O-benzyl analog 5β, were converted in near-quantitative yield into the corresponding, substituted oxazolines by the action of mercuric chloride and mercuric oxide in boiling acetonitrile. An optimized procedure for this cyclization is given. The 1H-n.m.r. spectra of the tri- O-acetyl ( 19) and the 4- O-acetyl-3,6-di- O-benzyl ( 21) oxazolines indicate a modified 0 S 2, conformation for these compounds.
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