Electrochemical synthesis of the protected cyclic (1,3;1,6)-β-glucan dodecasaccharide

Faraday Discuss. 2023 Oct 31;247(0):59-69. doi: 10.1039/d3fd00045a.

Abstract

Automated electrochemical assembly is an electrochemical method to synthesise middle-sized molecules, including linear oligosaccharides, and some linear oligosaccharides can be electrochemically converted into the corresponding cyclic oligosaccharides effectively. In this study, the target cyclic oligosaccharide is a protected cyclic (1,3;1,6)-β-glucan dodecasaccharide, which consists of two types of glucose trisaccharides with β-(1,3)- and β-(1,6)-glycosidic linkages. The formation of the protected cyclic dodecasaccharide was confirmed by the electrochemical one-pot dimerisation-cyclisation of the semi-circular hexasaccharide. The yield of the protected cyclic dodecasaccharide was improved by using a stepwise synthesis via the linear dodecasaccharide.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Dimerization
  • Oligosaccharides / chemistry
  • beta-Glucans* / chemistry

Substances

  • beta-Glucans
  • Oligosaccharides