Carboxymethyl glycoside lactone (CMGL) synthons: Scope of the method and preliminary results on step growth polymerization of alpha-azide-omega-alkyne glycomonomers
Résumé
Carboxymethyl glycoside lactones (CMGLs) are bicyclic synthons which open readily for accessing new types of pseudo-glycoconjugates, such as sugar-amino acid hybrids, neoglycolipids, pseudodisaccharides, and membrane imaging systems. After lactone opening, free OH-2 is available for further functionalization, leading to 1,2-bisfunctionalized derivatives. This strategy is illustrated herein with new polymerizable systems of the AB type bearing both azide and alkyne functions prepared from alpha or beta gluco-CMGL synthons. After the reaction of lactones with propargylamine, an azido group was introduced by two different sequences leading to either the 2-manno-azido or the 6-gluco-azido products. The capability of these AB monomers to undergo step growth polymerization through copper(I) catalyzed alkyne-azide cycloaddition (CuAAC) and generate glycopolytriazoles was evidenced.