Aqueous semisynthesis of C-glycoside glycamines from agarose

• Juliana C. Cunico Dallagnol,
• Alexandre Orsato,
• Diogo R. B. Ducatti,
• Miguel D. Noseda,
• Maria Eugênia R. Duarte and
• Alan G. Gonçalves

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1222–1229, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.121

• -anhydro-α-L-galactopyranose unit (naturally present in the agarose structure) to all glycamines synthesized, constituting an amino-substituted C-threofuranoside moiety, which is closely related to (+)-muscarine. Keywords: amino sugar; 3,6-anhydro-α-L-galactopyranose; polysaccharide (agar); protecting

• (1→3)-β-D-galactopyranose-(1→4)-3,6-anhydro-α-L-galactopyranose [1]. Both 1 and its less refined versions (agar or agar-agar) are well known due to their wide applications in food industry, microbiology and laboratorial sciences [2][3]. Even though agar and pure 1 are readily and commercially

• available, these polysaccharides are far little explored as sources of chemical platforms for drug development. The rare monosaccharide 3,6-anhydro-α-L-galactopyranose (AnGal), naturally present in the agarose structure, is a valuable scaffold since it is a highly functionalized and a chiral-rich monomer