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In organic chemistry, an amino sugar is a sugar molecule in which a group has been replaced with an . More than 60 amino sugars are known, with one of the most abundant being N-acetyl--glucosamine (a 2-amino-2-deoxysugar), which is the main component of .

Derivatives of amine containing sugars, such as N-acetylglucosamine and , whose are part of more complex functional groups rather than formally being amines, are also considered amino sugars. are a class of antimicrobial compounds that inhibit bacterial protein synthesis. These compounds are conjugates of amino sugars and .


Biosynthesis
Amino sugars are formed by introducing amines into the keto forms of sugars. The transformations are catalyzed by and amidotransferases. The amine donors are the amino acids and .


Organic chemistry

From glycals
are cyclic derivatives of , having a double bond between carbon atoms 1 and 2 of the ring. N-functionalized of glycals at the C2 position, combined with glycosidic bond formation at C1 is a common strategy for the synthesis of amino sugars. This can be achieved using with subsequent yielding the amino sugar. One advantage of introducing azide moiety at C-2 lies in its non-participatory ability, which could serve as the basis of stereoselective synthesis of 1.2-cis-glycosidic linkage.

Azides give high , however stereoselectivity both at C-1 and C-2 is generally poor. Usually mixtures will be obtained and the stereochemistry formed at C-2 is heavily dependent upon the starting substrates. For galactal, addition of azide to the double bond will preferentially occur from equatorial direction because of steric hindrance at the top face caused by axial group at C-4. For , azide could attack from both axial and equatorial directions with almost similar probability, so its selectivity will decrease.

Glycals may also be converted into amino sugars by nitration followed by treatment with (Michael addition) to furnish a thioglycoside donor. This is a versatile donor and can react with simple or carbohydrate alcohols to establish the glycosidic linkage, with reduction and N-acetylation of nitro group will give the targeted product.

One-pot reactions have also been reported. For instance , activated by thianthrene-5-oxide and Tf2O is treated with an amide nucleophile and a glycosyl acceptor to produce various 1,2-trans C-2-amidoglycosides. Both the C-2 nitrogen introduction and the glycosidic bond formation precede stereoselectively. This methodology makes the introduction of both natural and non-natural amide functionalities at C-2 possible and more importantly with glycosidic bond formation at the same time in a one-pot procedure.


Via nucleophilic displacement
Nucleophilic displacement can be an effective strategy for the synthesis of amino sugars, however success strongly depends upon the nature of nucleophile, the type of leaving group and site of displacements on sugar rings. One aspect of this problem is that displacements at the C2 position tend to be slow as it is adjacent to the ; this is particularly true for glycosides with axially-oriented aglycones.

are suitable starting materials for realizing nucleophilic displacement reaction to introduce azide into C-2. Anhydrosugar 21 could be transformed into thioglycoside 22, which serves as a donor to react with alcohols to obtain 2-azide-2-deoxy- O-glycosides. The subsequent reduction and N-acetylation will furnish the desired 2- N-acetamido-2-deoxyglycosides.


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