organic compounds
N-Benzyl-3,5-dideoxy-3,5-imino-1,2-O-isopropylidene-β-L-lyxofuranose
aDepartment of Chemical Crystallography, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, England, and bDepartment of Organic Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, England
*Correspondence e-mail: sarah.jenkinson@chem.ox.ac.uk
X-ray crystallography confirmed the formation, structure and relative stereochemistry of the title compound, C15H19NO3, which contains a sterically congested four-membered azetidine ring system. The was determined by the use of L-arabinose as the starting material.
Related literature
For related literature on azetidines, see: Krämer et al. (1997); Michaud et al. (1997a,b); Dekaris & Reissig (2010); Soengas et al. (2011); Jenkinson et al. (2011); Lenagh-Snow et al. (2011, 2012); Lee et al. (2012). For related literature on iminosugars, see: Asano et al. (2000); Watson et al. (2001). For details of the cryostat, see: Cosier & Glazer (1986). For details of hydrogen see: Cooper et al. (2010). For references to the Chebychev polynomial, see: Prince (1982); Watkin (1994).
Experimental
Crystal data
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Data collection: COLLECT (Nonius, 2001); cell DENZO and SCALEPACK (Otwinowski & Minor, 1997); data reduction: DENZO and SCALEPACK; program(s) used to solve structure: SIR92 (Altomare et al., 1994); program(s) used to refine structure: CRYSTALS (Betteridge et al., 2003); molecular graphics: CAMERON (Watkin et al., 1996); software used to prepare material for publication: CRYSTALS.
Supporting information
https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600536812030656/lh5500sup1.cif
contains datablocks global, I. DOI:Structure factors: contains datablock I. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600536812030656/lh5500Isup2.hkl
The title compound was recrystallized from cyclohexane/pentane. [α]D25 +76.0 (c 0.50 in CHCl3); m.p. 337–339 K.
In the absence of significant
Friedel pairs were merged and the was assigned from the starting material.The H atoms were all located in a difference map, but those attached to carbon atoms were repositioned geometrically. The H atoms were initially refined with soft restraints on the bond lengths and angles to regularize their geometry (C—H in the range 0.93–0.98 Å) and Uiso(H) (in the range 1.2–1.5 times Ueq of the parent atom), after which the positions were refined with riding constraints (Cooper et al., 2010).
Azetidines (Michaud et al., 1997a; Michaud et al., 1997b; Dekaris & Reissig, 2010; Soengas et al., 2011) are a relatively unstudied class of iminosugars (Asano et al., 2000; Watson et al., 2001, Michaud et al., 1997a; Michaud et al., 1997b; Dekaris & Reissig, 2010; Soengas et al., 2011) but initial results (Krämer et al., 1997; Lee et al., 2012) have shown some interesting biological activity.
Azetidine formation can be achieved by the double displacement of ditriflates with
(Jenkinson et al., 2011; Lenagh-Snow et al., 2011; Lenagh-Snow et al., 2012). X-Ray crystallography confirmed the structure and relative stereochemistry of the formation of the title compound 3 (Fig. 1) from the displacement of a 3,5-O-ditriflate 2 with benzylamine. The absolute stereochemistry was determined by the use of L-arabinose as the starting material.The five membered rings adopt envelope conformations with O7 and C10 out of the plane, and the azetidine ring adopts a puckered conformation (Fig. 2, Fig. 3).
For related literature on azetidines, see: Krämer et al. (1997); Michaud et al. (1997a,b); Dekaris & Reissig (2010); Soengas et al. (2011); Jenkinson et al. (2011); Lenagh-Snow et al. (2011, 2012); Lee et al. (2012). For related literature on iminosugars, see: Asano et al. (2000); Watson et al. (2001). For details of the cryostat, see: Cosier & Glazer (1986). For details of hydrogen
see: Cooper et al. (2010). For related literature, see: Prince (1982); Watkin (1994).Data collection: COLLECT (Nonius, 2001); cell
DENZO and SCALEPACK (Otwinowski & Minor, 1997); data reduction: DENZO and SCALEPACK (Otwinowski & Minor, 1997); program(s) used to solve structure: SIR92 (Altomare et al., 1994); program(s) used to refine structure: CRYSTALS (Betteridge et al., 2003); molecular graphics: CAMERON (Watkin et al., 1996); software used to prepare material for publication: CRYSTALS (Betteridge et al., 2003).C15H19NO3 | F(000) = 280 |
Mr = 261.32 | Dx = 1.312 Mg m−3 |
Monoclinic, P21 | Mo Kα radiation, λ = 0.71073 Å |
Hall symbol: P 2yb | Cell parameters from 1627 reflections |
a = 9.1674 (2) Å | θ = 5–27° |
b = 5.7551 (1) Å | µ = 0.09 mm−1 |
c = 13.1112 (3) Å | T = 150 K |
β = 106.9544 (8)° | Plate, colourless |
V = 661.67 (2) Å3 | 0.24 × 0.23 × 0.07 mm |
Z = 2 |
Nonius KappaCCD diffractometer | 1544 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
Graphite monochromator | Rint = 0.014 |
ω scans | θmax = 27.4°, θmin = 5.4° |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (DENZO and SCALEPACK; Otwinowski & Minor, 1997) | h = −11→11 |
Tmin = 0.94, Tmax = 0.99 | k = −7→6 |
13110 measured reflections | l = −16→16 |
1638 independent reflections |
Refinement on F2 | Primary atom site location: structure-invariant direct methods |
Least-squares matrix: full | Hydrogen site location: difference Fourier map |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.033 | H-atom parameters constrained |
wR(F2) = 0.087 | Method, part 1, Chebychev polynomial, (Watkin, 1994, Prince, 1982) [weight] = 1.0/[A0*T0(x) + A1*T1(x) ··· + An-1]*Tn-1(x)] where Ai are the Chebychev coefficients listed below and x = F /Fmax Method = Robust Weighting (Prince, 1982) W = [weight] * [1-(deltaF/6*sigmaF)2]2 Ai are: 22.1 34.0 17.6 5.07 |
S = 0.94 | (Δ/σ)max = 0.0003 |
1638 reflections | Δρmax = 0.17 e Å−3 |
172 parameters | Δρmin = −0.18 e Å−3 |
1 restraint |
C15H19NO3 | V = 661.67 (2) Å3 |
Mr = 261.32 | Z = 2 |
Monoclinic, P21 | Mo Kα radiation |
a = 9.1674 (2) Å | µ = 0.09 mm−1 |
b = 5.7551 (1) Å | T = 150 K |
c = 13.1112 (3) Å | 0.24 × 0.23 × 0.07 mm |
β = 106.9544 (8)° |
Nonius KappaCCD diffractometer | 1638 independent reflections |
Absorption correction: multi-scan (DENZO and SCALEPACK; Otwinowski & Minor, 1997) | 1544 reflections with I > 2σ(I) |
Tmin = 0.94, Tmax = 0.99 | Rint = 0.014 |
13110 measured reflections |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)] = 0.033 | 1 restraint |
wR(F2) = 0.087 | H-atom parameters constrained |
S = 0.94 | Δρmax = 0.17 e Å−3 |
1638 reflections | Δρmin = −0.18 e Å−3 |
172 parameters |
Experimental. The crystal was placed in the cold stream of an Oxford Cryosystems open-flow nitrogen cryostat (Cosier & Glazer, 1986) with a nominal stability of 0.1 K. |
x | y | z | Uiso*/Ueq | ||
O1 | 0.09793 (13) | 0.5625 (2) | 0.84062 (10) | 0.0269 | |
C2 | 0.25050 (17) | 0.6293 (3) | 0.89568 (13) | 0.0260 | |
C3 | 0.35745 (18) | 0.6618 (3) | 0.82587 (13) | 0.0262 | |
N4 | 0.31206 (15) | 0.5481 (3) | 0.72006 (11) | 0.0264 | |
C5 | 0.45568 (19) | 0.4116 (4) | 0.74729 (15) | 0.0318 | |
C6 | 0.48402 (19) | 0.4783 (3) | 0.86494 (14) | 0.0292 | |
O7 | 0.42651 (14) | 0.3113 (3) | 0.92411 (10) | 0.0319 | |
C8 | 0.31601 (19) | 0.4200 (3) | 0.96665 (14) | 0.0284 | |
O9 | 0.19278 (13) | 0.2728 (3) | 0.96037 (10) | 0.0313 | |
C10 | 0.07349 (18) | 0.3246 (3) | 0.86343 (14) | 0.0274 | |
C11 | 0.0820 (2) | 0.1650 (3) | 0.77364 (14) | 0.0306 | |
C12 | −0.07829 (19) | 0.3058 (4) | 0.88768 (15) | 0.0333 | |
C13 | 0.2813 (2) | 0.6967 (3) | 0.62624 (14) | 0.0309 | |
C14 | 0.2617 (2) | 0.5526 (4) | 0.52659 (14) | 0.0288 | |
C15 | 0.3343 (2) | 0.6152 (4) | 0.45124 (14) | 0.0320 | |
C16 | 0.3150 (2) | 0.4828 (4) | 0.35950 (14) | 0.0353 | |
C17 | 0.2236 (2) | 0.2866 (4) | 0.34202 (15) | 0.0346 | |
C18 | 0.1518 (2) | 0.2208 (4) | 0.41731 (16) | 0.0379 | |
C19 | 0.1714 (2) | 0.3523 (4) | 0.50899 (15) | 0.0343 | |
H21 | 0.2489 | 0.7722 | 0.9365 | 0.0300* | |
H31 | 0.3962 | 0.8232 | 0.8266 | 0.0305* | |
H51 | 0.4416 | 0.2480 | 0.7305 | 0.0388* | |
H52 | 0.5313 | 0.4779 | 0.7148 | 0.0374* | |
H61 | 0.5871 | 0.5325 | 0.9042 | 0.0348* | |
H81 | 0.3666 | 0.4639 | 1.0430 | 0.0337* | |
H112 | 0.0678 | 0.0054 | 0.7931 | 0.0457* | |
H113 | 0.0002 | 0.2059 | 0.7092 | 0.0453* | |
H111 | 0.1807 | 0.1782 | 0.7612 | 0.0454* | |
H121 | −0.0909 | 0.1489 | 0.9112 | 0.0506* | |
H123 | −0.1589 | 0.3444 | 0.8220 | 0.0494* | |
H122 | −0.0782 | 0.4156 | 0.9454 | 0.0507* | |
H132 | 0.1871 | 0.7872 | 0.6208 | 0.0373* | |
H131 | 0.3679 | 0.8067 | 0.6310 | 0.0372* | |
H151 | 0.3977 | 0.7507 | 0.4630 | 0.0386* | |
H161 | 0.3646 | 0.5290 | 0.3064 | 0.0422* | |
H171 | 0.2100 | 0.2000 | 0.2782 | 0.0423* | |
H181 | 0.0896 | 0.0854 | 0.4067 | 0.0458* | |
H191 | 0.1208 | 0.3077 | 0.5589 | 0.0420* |
U11 | U22 | U33 | U12 | U13 | U23 | |
O1 | 0.0214 (5) | 0.0238 (6) | 0.0331 (6) | 0.0007 (5) | 0.0041 (4) | 0.0028 (5) |
C2 | 0.0234 (7) | 0.0239 (8) | 0.0291 (7) | −0.0006 (6) | 0.0051 (6) | −0.0014 (7) |
C3 | 0.0234 (7) | 0.0242 (8) | 0.0299 (7) | −0.0018 (6) | 0.0063 (6) | −0.0014 (6) |
N4 | 0.0255 (6) | 0.0246 (7) | 0.0293 (7) | −0.0002 (6) | 0.0081 (5) | −0.0014 (6) |
C5 | 0.0287 (8) | 0.0290 (9) | 0.0385 (9) | 0.0023 (7) | 0.0108 (7) | −0.0040 (8) |
C6 | 0.0225 (7) | 0.0289 (9) | 0.0349 (8) | −0.0002 (7) | 0.0063 (6) | −0.0003 (7) |
O7 | 0.0293 (6) | 0.0270 (6) | 0.0393 (6) | 0.0054 (5) | 0.0100 (5) | 0.0060 (6) |
C8 | 0.0251 (7) | 0.0274 (9) | 0.0313 (8) | 0.0014 (7) | 0.0058 (6) | 0.0036 (7) |
O9 | 0.0264 (6) | 0.0333 (7) | 0.0311 (6) | −0.0017 (5) | 0.0034 (5) | 0.0078 (5) |
C10 | 0.0248 (7) | 0.0257 (8) | 0.0299 (8) | −0.0007 (7) | 0.0054 (6) | 0.0049 (7) |
C11 | 0.0291 (8) | 0.0254 (8) | 0.0361 (8) | −0.0019 (7) | 0.0077 (7) | 0.0013 (7) |
C12 | 0.0264 (7) | 0.0366 (10) | 0.0376 (8) | −0.0030 (8) | 0.0105 (6) | 0.0037 (8) |
C13 | 0.0365 (8) | 0.0249 (8) | 0.0318 (8) | −0.0035 (8) | 0.0106 (7) | −0.0007 (7) |
C14 | 0.0268 (7) | 0.0279 (9) | 0.0307 (8) | 0.0010 (7) | 0.0066 (6) | −0.0015 (7) |
C15 | 0.0289 (8) | 0.0330 (10) | 0.0326 (8) | −0.0028 (8) | 0.0069 (6) | 0.0022 (7) |
C16 | 0.0307 (8) | 0.0430 (12) | 0.0337 (9) | 0.0009 (8) | 0.0116 (7) | 0.0003 (8) |
C17 | 0.0306 (8) | 0.0374 (10) | 0.0342 (8) | 0.0042 (8) | 0.0070 (7) | −0.0071 (8) |
C18 | 0.0374 (9) | 0.0322 (10) | 0.0447 (10) | −0.0062 (8) | 0.0129 (8) | −0.0080 (9) |
C19 | 0.0357 (9) | 0.0317 (10) | 0.0379 (9) | −0.0066 (8) | 0.0147 (7) | −0.0034 (8) |
O1—C2 | 1.4271 (19) | C11—H112 | 0.972 |
O1—C10 | 1.433 (2) | C11—H113 | 0.981 |
C2—C3 | 1.535 (2) | C11—H111 | 0.967 |
C2—C8 | 1.534 (2) | C12—H121 | 0.972 |
C2—H21 | 0.984 | C12—H123 | 0.983 |
C3—N4 | 1.480 (2) | C12—H122 | 0.985 |
C3—C6 | 1.542 (2) | C13—C14 | 1.513 (2) |
C3—H31 | 0.994 | C13—H132 | 0.993 |
N4—C5 | 1.484 (2) | C13—H131 | 1.003 |
N4—C13 | 1.457 (2) | C14—C15 | 1.390 (2) |
C5—C6 | 1.536 (2) | C14—C19 | 1.399 (3) |
C5—H51 | 0.967 | C15—C16 | 1.391 (3) |
C5—H52 | 0.990 | C15—H151 | 0.957 |
C6—O7 | 1.429 (2) | C16—C17 | 1.385 (3) |
C6—H61 | 0.986 | C16—H161 | 0.974 |
O7—C8 | 1.435 (2) | C17—C18 | 1.389 (3) |
C8—O9 | 1.395 (2) | C17—H171 | 0.950 |
C8—H81 | 1.005 | C18—C19 | 1.387 (3) |
O9—C10 | 1.4456 (19) | C18—H181 | 0.952 |
C10—C11 | 1.513 (3) | C19—H191 | 0.941 |
C10—C12 | 1.519 (2) | ||
C2—O1—C10 | 109.99 (13) | O9—C10—C12 | 107.79 (14) |
O1—C2—C3 | 115.67 (13) | O1—C10—C12 | 108.68 (15) |
O1—C2—C8 | 104.34 (14) | C11—C10—C12 | 112.21 (15) |
C3—C2—C8 | 104.59 (14) | C10—C11—H112 | 109.1 |
O1—C2—H21 | 109.4 | C10—C11—H113 | 108.9 |
C3—C2—H21 | 109.7 | H112—C11—H113 | 109.0 |
C8—C2—H21 | 113.1 | C10—C11—H111 | 110.3 |
C2—C3—N4 | 116.83 (13) | H112—C11—H111 | 108.8 |
C2—C3—C6 | 105.56 (14) | H113—C11—H111 | 110.7 |
N4—C3—C6 | 89.27 (13) | C10—C12—H121 | 109.5 |
C2—C3—H31 | 113.4 | C10—C12—H123 | 107.6 |
N4—C3—H31 | 115.1 | H121—C12—H123 | 111.0 |
C6—C3—H31 | 113.9 | C10—C12—H122 | 108.6 |
C3—N4—C5 | 91.22 (12) | H121—C12—H122 | 109.0 |
C3—N4—C13 | 117.65 (15) | H123—C12—H122 | 111.1 |
C5—N4—C13 | 116.97 (14) | N4—C13—C14 | 110.62 (16) |
N4—C5—C6 | 89.30 (13) | N4—C13—H132 | 108.6 |
N4—C5—H51 | 114.2 | C14—C13—H132 | 110.1 |
C6—C5—H51 | 116.3 | N4—C13—H131 | 111.3 |
N4—C5—H52 | 112.1 | C14—C13—H131 | 107.0 |
C6—C5—H52 | 113.7 | H132—C13—H131 | 109.2 |
H51—C5—H52 | 109.9 | C13—C14—C15 | 120.71 (17) |
C3—C6—C5 | 86.95 (13) | C13—C14—C19 | 120.65 (16) |
C3—C6—O7 | 106.25 (13) | C15—C14—C19 | 118.64 (17) |
C5—C6—O7 | 113.33 (15) | C14—C15—C16 | 120.39 (18) |
C3—C6—H61 | 118.1 | C14—C15—H151 | 119.4 |
C5—C6—H61 | 117.3 | C16—C15—H151 | 120.3 |
O7—C6—H61 | 112.3 | C15—C16—C17 | 120.55 (17) |
C6—O7—C8 | 109.39 (14) | C15—C16—H161 | 120.0 |
C2—C8—O7 | 107.62 (14) | C17—C16—H161 | 119.4 |
C2—C8—O9 | 105.91 (13) | C16—C17—C18 | 119.59 (18) |
O7—C8—O9 | 111.33 (16) | C16—C17—H171 | 119.4 |
C2—C8—H81 | 113.1 | C18—C17—H171 | 121.0 |
O7—C8—H81 | 108.9 | C17—C18—C19 | 119.92 (19) |
O9—C8—H81 | 110.0 | C17—C18—H181 | 120.5 |
C8—O9—C10 | 108.58 (13) | C19—C18—H181 | 119.6 |
O9—C10—O1 | 104.85 (14) | C14—C19—C18 | 120.89 (17) |
O9—C10—C11 | 111.18 (15) | C14—C19—H191 | 119.8 |
O1—C10—C11 | 111.77 (14) | C18—C19—H191 | 119.3 |
Experimental details
Crystal data | |
Chemical formula | C15H19NO3 |
Mr | 261.32 |
Crystal system, space group | Monoclinic, P21 |
Temperature (K) | 150 |
a, b, c (Å) | 9.1674 (2), 5.7551 (1), 13.1112 (3) |
β (°) | 106.9544 (8) |
V (Å3) | 661.67 (2) |
Z | 2 |
Radiation type | Mo Kα |
µ (mm−1) | 0.09 |
Crystal size (mm) | 0.24 × 0.23 × 0.07 |
Data collection | |
Diffractometer | Nonius KappaCCD |
Absorption correction | Multi-scan (DENZO and SCALEPACK; Otwinowski & Minor, 1997) |
Tmin, Tmax | 0.94, 0.99 |
No. of measured, independent and observed [I > 2σ(I)] reflections | 13110, 1638, 1544 |
Rint | 0.014 |
(sin θ/λ)max (Å−1) | 0.648 |
Refinement | |
R[F2 > 2σ(F2)], wR(F2), S | 0.033, 0.087, 0.94 |
No. of reflections | 1638 |
No. of parameters | 172 |
No. of restraints | 1 |
H-atom treatment | H-atom parameters constrained |
Δρmax, Δρmin (e Å−3) | 0.17, −0.18 |
Computer programs: COLLECT (Nonius, 2001), DENZO and SCALEPACK (Otwinowski & Minor, 1997), SIR92 (Altomare et al., 1994), CRYSTALS (Betteridge et al., 2003), CAMERON (Watkin et al., 1996).
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Azetidines (Michaud et al., 1997a; Michaud et al., 1997b; Dekaris & Reissig, 2010; Soengas et al., 2011) are a relatively unstudied class of iminosugars (Asano et al., 2000; Watson et al., 2001, Michaud et al., 1997a; Michaud et al., 1997b; Dekaris & Reissig, 2010; Soengas et al., 2011) but initial results (Krämer et al., 1997; Lee et al., 2012) have shown some interesting biological activity.
Azetidine formation can be achieved by the double displacement of ditriflates with amines (Jenkinson et al., 2011; Lenagh-Snow et al., 2011; Lenagh-Snow et al., 2012). X-Ray crystallography confirmed the structure and relative stereochemistry of the formation of the title compound 3 (Fig. 1) from the displacement of a 3,5-O-ditriflate 2 with benzylamine. The absolute stereochemistry was determined by the use of L-arabinose as the starting material.
The five membered rings adopt envelope conformations with O7 and C10 out of the plane, and the azetidine ring adopts a puckered conformation (Fig. 2, Fig. 3).