The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Health

Wolfgang F Weckerle

Derek Horton

A method for synthesizing daunosamine hydrochloride from methyl .alpha.-D-mannopyranoside. The major features of the preparative route involve the formation of a 2-deoxy-3-keto intermediate, whose oxime is reduced with high stereoselectivity to the D-ribo-3-amino compound, followed by a stereospecific step late in the sequence to introduce the terminal C-methyl group with inversion at C-5, to generate the required L-lyxo stereochemistry. The synthesis procedure affords daunosamine hydrochloride in 40% overall yield, with no chromatographic procedures for isolation being required in any of the steps.

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Columbus, OH, United States of America

Wolfgang F Weckerle