T. Sugai et al., A CHEMOENZYMATIC SYNTHESIS OF D-ALLOSAMINE DERIVATIVES FROM TRI-O-ACETYL-D-GLUCAL, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 70(10), 1997, pp. 2535-2540
N-Acetyl-D-allosamine and its derivatives were synthesized from tri-O-
acetyl-D-glucal based on lipase-catalyzed selective protection of prim
ary alcohols, [3,3] sigmatropic rearrangement of allylic trichloroacet
imidates, and stereoselective ruthenium-catalyzed dihydroxylation. In
the course of this study, it was revealed that the Pseudomonas lipase-
catalyzed acetylation occurred in a high yield (> 90%) exclusively at
the primary alcohols of three Ferrier rearrangement products derived f
rom tri-O-acetyl-D-glucal.