The synthesis o
f a UDP-Gal
f analog incorporating a 1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-
D-galactitol skeleton
fchars/alpha.gi
f" BORDER=0>-linkedto UMP by a 3C-tether and o
f a series o
f related pyrrolidine galacto
furanose mimicks is reported. Thesecompounds were obtained by way o
f the highly stereoselective reaction o
f silylated nucleophiles with a
N-Cbz gluco
furanosylamine which a
fforded the corresponding open-chain product with a 1,2-
synstereochemistry, as predicted
from pionneering studies
from Kobayashi. Cyclization o
f these intermediatesa
fforded
fchars/alpha.gi
f" BORDER=0>-
C-glycosides o
f imino-galacto
furanose carrying various
functional groups in the aglycone.Further elaboration o
f the
fchars/alpha.gi
f" BORDER=0>-
C-allyl substituted derivative by cross-metathesis with a uridin-5'-ylvinylphosphonate provided, a
fter deprotection, the desired original UDP-Gal
f mimicks. Cleavage o
f thebenzyl ether protecting groups in the iminosugar component using BCl
3 proved critical to the success o
fthe synthetic plan. Several o
f the new 1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-
D-galactitol derivatives were evaluated asinhibitors o
f UGM (UDP-galactopyranose mutase)
from
Escherichia coli; however, none o
f them exhibitedless than mM activities toward this enzyme which catalyzes a crucial step o
f the biosynthesis o
fgalacto
furanose-containing bacterial cell-sur
face glycans.