Isomérisations en chimie des sucres. II Fermetures de cycles par attaque nucléophile intramoléculaire sur des carbones sp2 à caractère électrophile: Furannoses hybridés sp2 en C3

When heated with one equivalent of H₂O, the 1,2: 5,6-di-O-isopropylidene-α-D-ribo- and -xylo-hexofuranos-3-uloses loose one molecule of acetone and yield the 3, 6-anhydro-1, 2-O-isopropylidene-α-D-ribo- and -xylo-hexofuranos-3-ulose ketohydrols. The carbonyl group of the starting material seems to provide some kind of intramolecular electrophilic assistance to the hydrolysis of the 5, 6-O-isopropylidene group. When the oxygen of the carbonyl group is replaced by cyanomethylene, an analogous cyclisation takes place under base catalysis, provided that C6 bears a free hydroxyl group.