Electron-deficient pyridinium salts/thiourea cooperative catalyzed O-glycosylation via activation of O-glycosyl trichloroacetimidate donors

• Mukta Shaw,
• Yogesh Kumar,
• Rima Thakur and
• Amit Kumar

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2385–2395, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.236

• trichloroacetimidate donors using a synergistic catalytic system of electron-deficient pyridinium salts/aryl thiourea derivatives at room temperature is demonstrated. The acidity of the adduct formed by the 1,2-addition of alcohol to the electron-deficient pyridinium salt is increased in the presence of an aryl

• , the optimized method is also utilized for the regioselective O-glycosylation by using a partially protected acceptor. Keywords: cooperative catalysis; electron-deficient pyridinium salts; O-glycoside; regioselectivity; thiourea; Introduction The glycosidic linkage is the principal bond present in a

• activation at room temperature [32][33][34][35][36]. It is known from the literature that pyridinium salts exhibit pKa values of about 5.2 [37]. Of late, Berkessel et al. disclosed an elegant method, where different electron deficient pyridinium salts (expected pKa values less than 5) were used as a catalyst