Carbohydrate Chemistry

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1 Carbohydrate Chemistry The term carbohydrate is derived from the Cn(2O)n general chemical formula Carbohydrates are polyhydroxy aldehydes or ketones, or substances that yield such compounds on hydrolysis The term carbohydrate comes from the fact that when we heat sugars, we get carbon and water. Classification of Carbohydrates Monosaccharides contain a single polyhydroxy aldehyde or ketone unit (saccharo is Greek for sugar ) (e.g., glucose, fructose). Disaccharides consist of two monosaccharide units linked together by a covalent bond (e.g., sucrose). Oligosaccharides contain from 3 to 10 monosaccharide units (e.g., raffinose). Polysaccharides contain very long chains of hundreds or thousands of monosaccharide units, which may be either in straight or branched chains (e.g., cellulose, glycogen, starch). Monosaccharides are classified according to the number of carbon atoms they contain: srrchemistrylessons - 1 -

2 No. of Class of carbons Monosaccharide 3 triose 4 tetrose 5 pentose 6 hexose The presence of an aldehyde is indicated by the prefix aldose and a ketone by the prefix ketose. Fischer Projections Fischer projections are a convenient way to represent mirror images in two dimensions. srrchemistrylessons - 2 -

3 For carbohydrates, the chiral carbon furthest from the carbonyl is used to determine the D or L nomenclature.15 The structure below is a D-aldohexose (recall that hex- means six ), because it has the D configuration at the fifth carbon. srrchemistrylessons - 3 -

4 Evidence for Open chain Structure of D-Glucose 1. Glucose forms n-hexane by reduction with I (evidence of 6 straight chain C- link) 6- CO C 2 O O O C 3 O 2 /Pt O I/P O O O O C 2 O C 2 O C 3 D-Glucose D-Sorbitol n- exane The above reaction showed that glucose is not branched 2. Glucose forms n-heptanoic acid by reduction with CN, reduction by I/P followed by hydrolysis 8- glucose react with CN to give cyanohydrin which gives heptanoic acid on hydrolysis followed by heating with I O CO O O O C 2 O D-Glucose CN O CN CO O O O C 2 O Glucose cyanohydrin COO 3 O + O COO CO O O O C 2 O I C 2 C 3 eptanoic acid srrchemistrylessons - 4 -

5 3. Evidence for -CO group in Glucose Glucose reacts with CN, N2O, Tollen s reagent, Fehling s reagents 4. Evidence for Five -O groups in Glucose 7- Glucose + Acetic anhydride D-Glucose pentaacetate O CO O O O C 2 O Ac 2 O AcO CO OAc OAc OAc C 2 OAc D-Glucose D-Glucose pentaacetate The reaction shows that glucose contains five O groups srrchemistrylessons - 5 -

6 srrchemistrylessons Gluconic Acid

7 Ring structure for Glucose Open chain structure of Glucose can t explain the following reactions : 1. Glucose does not react with Sod. Bisulphate NaSO3 2. It gives two isomeric compounds Methyl- α-d- Glucoside and Methyl- β- D-Glucoside (Anomers) on reaction with C3O/Cl 3. It exhibits mutarotation when dissolved in water srrchemistrylessons - 7 -

8 Mutarotation : Change in the specific rotation [α] D of aqueous solution of either α- D-glucopyranose ( ) or β-d-glucopyranose ( ) to a equilibrium value of is called mutaotation. It is favoured by amphiprotic solvent like water. At equilibrium the mixture contains 36% of -D-glucopyranose and 64% of β-d-glucopyranose. Methyl- α-d- Glucoside and Methyl- β-d-glucoside (Anomers) formation srrchemistrylessons - 8 -

9 Evidence for Pyranose ring structure owarth irst methylation method: Pyranose structure contains link between C1 C5 carbons srrchemistrylessons - 9 -

10 Structure of Fructose srrchemistrylessons

11 Reaction of Glucose with Phenyl hydrazine: Formation of Osazone: Glucose, Fructose and Mannose all give same Osazone on reaction with Phenyhadrazine 1. Osazone formation from Glucose srrchemistrylessons

12 1. Osazone formation from Fructose srrchemistrylessons

13 Lobry De Bruyn Van Ekenstein Rearrangement: Anomers. The pair of diastereomers that differ in configuration only at C1 are called Anomers. The difference at C1 configuration is due to cyclisation of hemiacetals. For example, anomers of glucose are alpha-glucose and beta-glucose. srrchemistrylessons

14 Epimers. The pair of diastereomers that differ in configuration at only a single stereo centre (not the anomeric carbon ) are called Epimeres. Example : Dlucose and Mannose ( they differ at C2 ) srrchemistrylessons

15 Conversion of to Glucose ( Aldohexose) to Arabinose ( Aldopentose ) Ascending order : Ruff s degradation srrchemistrylessons

16 Conversion of Arabinose ( Aldopentose ) to Glucose ( Aldohexose) Ascending order : Kiliani-Fischer Synthesis srrchemistrylessons