Thiourea-linked upper rim calix[4]arene neoglycoconjugates: synthesis, conformations and binding properties
- 8 April 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
- Vol. 1 (10), 1802-1809
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b301595e
Abstract
The thiourea group has been exploited to link two or four carbohydrate units at the upper rim of tetrapropoxycalix[4]arene derivatives in the cone conformation. Two synthetic methodologies were used, the first one consisting of the condensation of di- and tetraminocalix[4]arenes with the isothiocyanate of monosaccharides in dry CH2Cl2 at room temperature and the second one exploiting the condensation of an aminolactoside with a calixarene isothiocyanate. The first method allows the glycoconjugates to be obtained in 75–80% overall yields. The difunctionalised derivatives exist in a closed flattened cone conformation in CDCl3 and CD3OD due to the formation of intramolecular hydrogen bonds involving the thiourea groups which are broken in DMSO-d6 to give an open flattened cone conformation. The thiourea groups act not only as linkers but also as binding units for anionic substrates as evidenced by solution 1H NMR and ESI-MS experiments. Turbidimetric analysis indicates that the tetraglucoside and tetragalactoside clusters give specific interactions with Concanavalin A (Con A) and peanut lectin (PNA), respectively. Both features show that the neoglycoconjugates could also be used as site specific molecular delivery systems.This publication has 58 references indexed in Scilit:
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