Issue 31, 2018

An innovative and efficient route to the synthesis of metal-based glycoconjugates: proof-of-concept and potential applications

Abstract

With a view to developing more efficient strategies to the functionalization of metallodrugs with carbohydrates, we here report on an innovative and efficient synthetic route to generate gold(III) glycoconjugates in high yields and purity. The method is based on the initial synthesis of the zinc(II)-dithiocarbamato intermediate [ZnII(SSC-Inp-GlcN)2] (Inp = isonipecotic moiety; GlcN = amino-glucose) followed by the transfer of the glucoseisonipecoticdithiocarbamato ligand to the gold(III) center via transmetallation reaction between the zinc(II) intermediate and K[AuIIIBr4] in 1 : 2 stoichiometric ratio, yielding the corresponding glucose-functionalized gold(III)-dithiocarbamato derivative [AuIIIBr2(SSC-Inp-GlcN)]. No protection/deprotection of the amino-glucose scaffold and no chromatographic purification were needed. The synthetic protocol was optimized for glucose precursors bearing the amino function at either the C2 or the C6 position, and works in the case of both α and β anomers. The application of the synthetic strategy was also successfully extended to other metal ions of biomedical interest, such as gold(I) and platinum(II), to obtain [AuI(SSC-Inp-GlcN)(PPh3)] and [PtII(SSC-Inp-GlcN)2], respectively. All compounds were fully characterized by elemental analysis, mid- and far-IR, mono- and multidimensional NMR spectroscopy, and, where possible, X-ray crystallography. Results and potential applications are here discussed.

Graphical abstract: An innovative and efficient route to the synthesis of metal-based glycoconjugates: proof-of-concept and potential applications

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 апр. 2018
Accepted
14 јун. 2018
First published
15 јун. 2018

Dalton Trans., 2018,47, 10721-10736

An innovative and efficient route to the synthesis of metal-based glycoconjugates: proof-of-concept and potential applications

A. Pettenuzzo, D. Montagner, P. McArdle and L. Ronconi, Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 10721 DOI: 10.1039/C8DT01583J

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