An efficient and convenient method was developed for the synthesis
of novel 1,4-oxazepine- and 1,5-oxazocine-based sugar hybrids from
readily available deoxysugar azides by means of tributylphosphine-mediated
tandem reactions. The resulting glycoconjugates might be useful
in increasing the diversity of sugar backbones, and could find applications
as potential glycomimetics and in drug discovery.
tandem reactions - heterocycles - carbohydrates - alkynes - oxazepines - oxazocines - azides