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An Insight into the Radical Thiol/Yne Coupling: The Emergence of Arylalkyne-Tagged Sugars for the Direct Photoinduced Glycosylation of Cysteine-Containing Peptides

2010; American Chemical Society; Volume: 76; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1021/jo101906j

1520-6904

Matteo Minozzi, Alessandro Monesi, Daniele Nanni, Piero Spagnolo, Nicola Marchetti, Alessandro Massi,

Fluorine in Organic Chemistry

An explorative study of the Thiol−Yne Coupling (TYC) reaction has been carried out using an aliphatic (1-octyne) and an aromatic alkyne (phenylacetylene) and two alkanethiols (methyl thioglycolate and N-acetyl-L-cysteine methyl ester). The outcomes of the TYC reactions strongly depend on the experimental conditions (e.g., temperature, solvent, and alkyne/thiol ratio), but these can be properly adjusted to achieve selective production of either mono- or bis-coupling products. With respect to 1-octyne, phenylacetylene undergoes notably easier radical hydrothiolation, further showing a notably higher aptitude for monohydrothiolation exclusive of bis-hydrothiolation. The overall findings were exploited in glycosylation of cysteine derivatives as well as of cysteine-containing peptides. A sugar featuring an arylacetylene moiety gave rise to a true click-reaction, that is, glycosylation of the tripeptide glutathione in its native form, by means of virtually equimolar amounts of reagents. This reaction was successfully applied, under physiological conditions, to a cysteine-containing nonapeptide with marked advantages over the analogous Thiol−Ene Coupling (TEC) derivatization. A TYC/TEC sequence affording bis-armed cysteine derivatives through dual functionalization of an alkynyl sugar was additionally devised.