Formation of a W(CO)5–furanosylidene complex from ribose without the use of protective groups
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[W(CO)5(acetone)], formed by photolysis of W(CO)6, undergoes a spontaneous reaction at the C-1 position of d-ribose in d6-acetone in 24 h in quantitative yield to form water and the W(CO)5–furanosylidene complex, exhibiting a characteristic carbene 13C resonance at 427 ppm. The reaction proceeds without protection of any of the ribose hydroxyl groups, and occurs only at the C-1 position. The same reaction does not occur for fructose, d(+)-ribonic γ-lactone, or 2-deoxy-d-ribose. No reaction occurred with the pyranose sugars, d-glucose or d-galactose. A pathway via oxidative addition to CH of the open chain aldehyde form of ribose is proposed. Insertion of W(CO)5 into the CH bond, followed by rearrangement of the W(II)(CO)5acyl hydride to a hydroxy carbene that recyclizes to the coordinated furanosylidene accounts for the reactivity of d-ribose and the absence of reactivity for the other sugars. Molecular mechanics calculations were carried out using spartan and mmff94 programs for the free sugars d-ribose and d-glucose and their C-1-coordinated carbenes of W(CO)5. The carbene complexes are energetically uphill of the free sugars by 54.8 and 63.3 kcal mol−1 for ribose and glucose, respectively. Therefore, elimination of water is a key factor in the net driving force to form the coordinated carbene of d-ribose. The structures reveal a useful planarity at C-1 which places the filled p-orbital on the O atom alpha to the carbene in the proper perpendicular arrangement to maximize resonance with the carbene carbon. The theoretical structure for the d-glucose analogue adopts sufficient puckering of the chair arrangement of the glucose to cause a misalignment of the alpha O p-orbital, which would decrease the inherent stablity, consistent with the absence of forming such a species.

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