作者:Donald M. Bird、Giorgio Gaudiano、Tad H. Koch
DOI:10.1021/ja00001a044
日期:1991.1
The reduction of daunomycin (1a) to the hydroquinone state has been described in the literature as leading either to elimination of the sugar daunosamine with formation of of 7-deoxydaunomycinone (5) under anaerobic conditions or to subsequent oxidation by molecular oxygen, yielding reactive oxygen species under aerobic conditions. The conditions under which the hydroquinone of 1a (7) tautomerizes, producing an isolable reduced form of 1a, referred to as leucodaunomycin, (8S)-cis-8-acetyl-10-[(3-amino-2,3,6-trideoxy-alpha-L-lyxo-hexopyranosy)oxy]-6a,7,8,9,10,10a-hexahydro-5,8,12-trihydroxy-1-methoxy-6,11-naphthacenedione (3), are described here. The synthesis and characterization of the the four disastereomers, A-D, of 3, along with studies of aerobic and anaerobic chemistry of two isomers, A and C, are reported. Under aerobic conditions, the isomers of 3 react with oxygen to form 1a, 5, 7-epidaunomycinone (8), 7-deoxy-7-ketodaunomycinone (9), 7-deoxy-7,13-epidioxy-daunomycinol (10) and daunomycinone (6), and the rate constant is a function of ph and stereochemistry and varies from 3.0 x 10(-4) to 2.6 x 10(-2) s-1 at pH 7.4. Under anaerobic conditions at pH 7.4 and 25-degrees-C, an aqueous solution of isomer A of 3 forms at 97:3 ratio of 5 to 6, and the reaction follows consecutive first-order kinetics with a k1 of 1.0 x 10-(-2) S-1 for the tautomerization of 3 to hydroquinone 7 and a k2 of 3.3 x 10(-2) S-1 for the tauntomerization of quinone methide 2 to 5. Under identical conditions, isomer C of 3 forms a 96.4 ratio of 5 to 6, and the reaction follows first-order kinetics with a k of 1.2 x 10(-3) S-1 for tautomerization of 3 to 7. Finally, the ability of 3 to react with N-acetyl-L-cysteine and participate in an autocatalytic cycle in the presence of 1a to form 7-[(N-acetyl-L-cysteinyl)thio]-7-deoxydaunomycinone (11) is described.