Charge Transfer Complexes (CTCs) with Pyridinium Salts: Toward Efficient Dual Photochemical/Thermal Initiators and 3D Printing Applications.

In both organic and polymer synthesis, photochemistry of charge transfer complexes (CTCs) is considered as a powerful approach to expand visible-light-driven radical chemistry reaction. One reports herein on the development of a class of useful CTCs using pyridinium salts as efficient electron acceptors (combined with N, N, 3,5-tetramethylaniline, TMA) to achieve a multiwavelength (375-560 nm) metal-free LED photopolymerization process under mild conditions (open to air, without monomer purification and inhibitor removal). The UV-vis absorption spectra and molecular modeling simultaneously verify its potential blue-green absorbing wavelength range.

Glucose-based spiro-isoxazolines: a new family of potent glycogen phosphorylase inhibitors.

A series of glucopyranosylidene-spiro-isoxazolines was prepared through regio- and stereoselective [3+2]-cycloaddition between the methylene acetylated exo-glucal and aromatic nitrile oxides. The deprotected cycloadducts were evaluated as inhibitors of muscle glycogen phosphorylase b. The carbohydrate-based family of five inhibitors displays K(i) values ranging from 0.

Glucose-based spiro-heterocycles as potent inhibitors of glycogen phosphorylase.

Glucopyranosylidene-spiro-1,4,2-oxathiazoles were prepared in high yields by NBS-mediated spiro-cyclization of the corresponding glucosyl-hydroximothioates. In an effort to synthesize analogous glucopyranosylidene-spiro-1,2,4-oxadiazolines, with a nitrogen atom instead of the sulphur, attempted cyclizations resulted in aromatization of the heterocycle with opening of the pyranosyl ring. Enzymatic measurements showed that some of the glucose-based inhibitors were active in the micromolar range.

Synthesis and structure-activity relationships of C-glycosylated oxadiazoles as inhibitors of glycogen phosphorylase.

A series of per-O-benzoylated 5-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-2-substituted-1,3,4-oxadiazoles was prepared by acylation of the corresponding 5-(beta-D-glucopyranosyl)tetrazole. As an alternative, oxidation of 2,6-anhydro-aldose benzoylhydrazones by iodobenzene I,I-diacetate afforded the same oxadiazoles. 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition of nitrile oxides to per-O-benzoylated beta-D-glucopyranosyl cyanide gave the corresponding 5-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-3-substituted-1,2,4-oxadiazoles.

Synthesis and evaluation of sulfamide-type indolizidines as glycosidase inhibitors.

A practical synthesis of reducing sulfamide-derived iminosugar glycomimetics related to the indolizidine glycosidase inhibitor family is reported. The polyhydroxylated bicyclic system was built from readily accessible hexofuranose derivatives through a synthetic scheme that involves 5,6-cyclic sulfamides. Further intramolecular nucleophilic addition of the sulfamide nitrogen atom to the masked aldehyde group of the monosaccharide in the open chain form afforded the target sugar mimics.