Stereochemical Variations on the Colchicine Motif. Part 4. A Remote Metalation Approach toward a Colchicine Analog with a Five-Membered B-Ring.
作者:Ulf Berg、Håkan Bladh、Berit A. Aanesen、Jacek Stawinski
DOI:10.3891/acta.chem.scand.52-1380
日期:——
Attempts to prepare a colchicine analog with a 5-membered B-ring by remote metalation of N,N-diethyl-3,4,5-trimethoxy-2-(5'-methoxy-4'-oxo-2',5',7'-cycloheptatrienyl)-benzamide (2) led to ring contraction of the methoxytropone ring to the p-methoxycarbonylphenyl derivative (3). Dynamic H-1 NMR investigations showed that the biaryl amide 2 exists as a mixture of diastereomers due to hindered rotation around both aryl-aryl and aryl-amide bonds, with rotational barriers of ca. 63 kJ mol(-1). The colchicine and allocolchicine analogs 2 and 3 do not notably affect tubulin polymerization, despite the structural similarities with active analogs. The reduced tubulin binding activity of 2 and 3 may be a result of increasing steric bulk.