Computational toolbox for the analysis of protein–glycan interactions

• Ferran Nieto-Fabregat,
• Maria Pia Lenza,
• Angela Marseglia,
• Cristina Di Carluccio,
• Antonio Molinaro,
• Alba Silipo and
• Roberta Marchetti

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 2084–2107, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.180

Aminosugar-based immunomodulator lipid A: synthetic approaches

• Alla Zamyatina

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 25–53, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.3

Preactivation-based chemoselective glycosylations: A powerful strategy for oligosaccharide assembly

• Weizhun Yang,
• Bo Yang,
• Sherif Ramadan and
• Xuefei Huang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2094–2114, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.207

• developed a preactivation-based glycosylation approach using selenoglycosides via the intermediacy of β-glycosyl bromides (Scheme 3) [27][28]. Upon the addition of 0.5 equiv of bromine, half of the selenoglycoside donor 4 would be activated to presumably form glycosyl bromide 5 accompanied by the generation

• , producing trisaccharide selenoglycoside 11 in 90% yield (Scheme 4). Following the same reaction protocol trisaccharide 11 and glycosylated acceptor 9 lead to tetrasaccharide 12, which was further extended to heptasaccharide 13. This method has also been applied to generate a library of phytoalexin elicitor

• -active oligoglucosides [28]. A limitation of this glycosyl bromide-mediated selenoglycoside iterative glycosylation is that it is restricted to the formation of 1,2-trans-glycosyl linkages. Furthermore, an additional isomerization step is needed to transform the orthoester to the desired glycoside

1,3-Dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin as promoter for glycosylations using thioglycosides

• Fei-Fei Xu,
• Claney L. Pereira and
• Peter H. Seeberger

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1994–1998, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.195

• building block 8 followed by UV-cleavage, disaccharide 16 was obtained in 63% isolated yield. Moreover, DBDMH performs as well as N-iodosuccinimide (NIS) in activating phenyl selenoglycoside 17 in the presence of water to furnish hemiacetal 18 en route to glycosyl imidate 19 (Scheme 2). Conclusion The

Total synthesis of a Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 12F CPS repeating unit hexasaccharide

• Peter H. Seeberger,
• Claney L. Pereira and
• Subramanian Govindan

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 164–173, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.19

• steps from known galactosylazide selenide 23 [29]. Acetylation of the C3 hydroxy group of 23 furnished fully differentially protected selenoglycoside 24 in 82% yield. Hydrolysis of the selenoglycoside using NIS in aqueous THF produced hemiacetal 25 that was silylated prior to selective saponification of

O-Alkylated heavy atom carbohydrate probes for protein X-ray crystallography: Studies towards the synthesis of methyl 2-O-methyl-L-selenofucopyranoside

• Roman Sommer,
• Dirk Hauck,
• Annabelle Varrot,
• Anne Imberty,
• Markus Künzler and
• Alexander Titz

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2828–2833, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.282

• carbohydrate epitopes with O-alkylated ring hydroxy groups. In this context, we report the first synthesis of an O-methylated selenoglycoside, specifically methyl 2-O-methyl-L-selenofucopyranoside, a ligand of the lectin tectonin-2 from the mushroom Laccaria bicolor. The synthetic route required a strategic

• : carbohydrate chemistry; fucose; lectin; selenoglycoside; Introduction Since the discovery of seleno mercaptan by Siemens in 1847 [1], organoselenium compounds have attracted high attention. Besides their biological and pharmaceutical relevance, e.g., selenocysteine or ebselen [2][3][4][5], selenium-containing

• complex with selenium-containing ligands can enable the phase determination without the need for recombinant incorporation of amino acid analogues. Buts et al. first reported the use of a selenoglycoside as ligand for a carbohydrate-binding protein, and its use for X-ray crystallographic structure