A facile approach to diosgenin and furostan type saponins bearing a 3β-chacotriose moiety

Autor: Helena Gybäck, René Suhr, Joachim Thiem, Stefan Oscarson, Martina Lahmann, Per J. Garegg
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Carbohydrate Research. 337:2153-2159
ISSN: 0008-6215
DOI: 10.1016/s0008-6215(02)00275-6
Popis: Combination of a one-pot coupling technique and the use of benzyl ethers as permanent protecting groups offered a short and simple route to dioscin-type saponins. This strategy in combination with a mild reductive opening procedure of the spiroketal function in diosgenin also offered a convenient approach to bidesmosidic furostan type saponins. Me(3)N.BH(3)/AlCl(3) promoted acetal opening of 3-O-TBDMS-protected diosgenin gave the 26-OH acceptor 9 into which a benzylated beta-glucose moiety was introduced by a S(N)2-type imidate coupling. After cleavage of the silyl ether, the 3beta-O-glucose and the 4-O-linked rhamnose of the chacotriose unit were introduced by a NIS/AgOTf-promoted one-pot coupling sequence utilising thioglycoside donors and their different reactivity in different solvents. After removal of a benzoyl group, the same coupling conditions were also used for the coupling of the second 2-O-linked rhamnose unit. The target substance was obtained after cleavage of the protecting benzyl ethers under Birch-type conditions, which did not affect the double bond in the steroid skeleton.
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