Stereo- and regioselective hydroboration of 1-exo-methylene pyranoses: discovery of aryltriazolylmethyl C-galactopyranosides as selective galectin-1 inhibitors

• Alexander Dahlqvist,
• Axel Furevi,
• Niklas Warlin,
• Hakon Leffler and
• Ulf J. Nilsson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1046–1060, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.102

• using a highly diastereoselective hydroboration of C1-exo-methylene pyranosides giving inhibitors with fourfold or better selectivity for galectin-1 over galectin-3, -4C (C-terminal CRD), -4N (N-terminal CRD), -7, -8C, -8N, -9C, and -9N and dissociation constants down to 170 µM. Keywords: C-galactoside

• C-galactoside aglycons, we performed a 200 ns molecular dynamic simulation of 1b in the complex with galectin-1 and galectin-3. Starting conformations were selected with the galactopyranose of 1b positioned overlapping with the positions of the lactose or N-acetyllactosamine galactopyranoses in

• galactopyranosyls 1a–n, a majority of which are galectin-1 selective with dissociation constants down to 170 ± 2 µM (1b) and fourfold or better selectivity for galectin-1 over other galectins. This is comparable to or better than known C-galactoside based galectin-1 inhibitors with almost a factor of two [22][23

Cross-metathesis reaction of α- and β-vinyl C-glycosides with alkenes

• Ivan Šnajdr,
• Kamil Parkan,
• Filip Hessler and
• Martin Kotora

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1392–1397, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.150

• Praha 6, Czech Republic 10.3762/bjoc.11.150 Abstract Cross-metathesis of α- and β-vinyl C-deoxyribosides and α-vinyl C-galactoside with various terminal alkenes under different conditions was studied. The cross-metathesis of the former proceeded with good yields of the corresponding products in