S. Czernecki et al., NUCLEOPHILIC-SUBSTITUTION VERSUS RADICAL REACTION FOR CARBOHYDRATES DEOXYGENATION - APPLICATION AT C-4 OF METHYL-ALPHA-D-GLUCOPYRANOSIDE DERIVATIVES, Journal of carbohydrate chemistry, 14(1), 1995, pp. 157-163
Two methods for deoxygenation at C-4 of methyl 2,3-di-O-benzyl-alpha-D
-glucopyranoside are reported. The first one involves nucleophilic dis
placement of a secondary methane sulfonate by lithium triethylborohydr
ide to afford methyl ,3-di-O-benzyl-4-deoxy-alpha-D-xylo-hexopyranosid
e (5). Compound 5 was also obtained in similar yield (approximate to 6
0%) by radical deoxygenation with tri-n-butyltin hydride of a thiocarb
onylated derivative.