N-(2-Acetamido-2-deoxy-β-d-glucopyranosyl)-N-(3-azidopropyl)-O-methylhydroxylamine

The structure of the title compound, C12H23N5O6, solved using adequate data from a thin crystal plate, confirmed that this useful glycoconjugate was obtained in the ring-closed β-pyranose configuration with 4C1 conformation. The molecules are bound by O—H...O(OH) hydrogen bonds, notably in a zigzag C(2) chain along the short b (screw) axis, supplemented with an R22(12) O—H...O(carbonyl) link along the a axis and other C(2) links. The absolute configuration was not unambiguously determined but was known from the synthetic chemistry, which used natural 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-d-glucose as the starting material