Reaction of caesium 4-chlorophenate and chlorohydrins from threonines: synthesis of clofibrate analogues
摘要:
Clofibrate is a well-known peroxisome prolifierator-activated receptor-alpha (PPARalpha) agonist, used in the treatment of hyperlipaemias and atherosclerosis and to prevent heart failure. Herein, the preparation of the four enantiomerically pure stereoisomers of ethyl 2-(4-chlorophenoxy)-3-hydroxybutanoate as clofibrate analogues is described. Biological evaluation of these new compounds was performed by a transactivation assay in a transiently transfected monkey kidney fibroblast cell line. All four diastereomers were inactive even at 300 muM, where clofibrate showed an evident activity, suggesting that the designed clofibrate molecular structural modifications in the analogues caused the loss of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha (PPARalpha) activity. (C) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Diastereo- and enantioselective bioreduction of ethyl 2-(4-chlorophenoxy)-3-oxobutanoate clofibrate analogues by Kluyveromyces marxianus and other whole cell biocatalysts
摘要:
Growing and resting cells of several yeasts, which catalyze the hydride transfer to a carbonyl, were screened and used in conditions to find out the suitable methodology to prepare clofibrate analogues. Clofibrate is an antilipidemic drug. In particular, the bioreduction of ethyl 2-(4-chlorophenoxy)-3-oxobutanoate 1 was investigated to separately prepare the four possible stereoisomers of the ethyl 2-(4-chlorophenoxy)-3-hydroxybutanoate 2. Compound (2R,3S)-2 was prepared with ee = 97% and 73% yield in the presence of Kluyveromyces marxianus; (2S,3S)-2 preparation with ee > 99% in 9% and 33% yield was mediated by Saccharomyces cerevisiae CBS 7336 and Trigonopsis variabilis, respectively. Diastereomeric excess values of all the reactions investigated were up to > 99%. Furthermore, enantiomeric excesses of the bioconversions varied between 2% and > 99% using growing cells and, 12% and > 99% using resting cells. The absolute configuration of (2R,3S)-2 was established by X-ray analysis of the corresponding acid 3. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Several 2-(4-chlorophenoxy)-3-oxoesters were prepared in fair to good yields and then reduced in the presence of baker's yeast to the corresponding alcohols having de's up to 92% and ee's > 99%. The absolute configuration of nearly enantiomerically pure ethyl 2-(4-chlorophenoxy)-3-hydroxybutanoate was assigned by both comparison of the sign of the specific rotation and HPLC retention times of authentic samples prepared from threonines. Reduction of ethyl 2-(4-chlorophenoxy)-3-oxo-4-phenylbutanoate afforded only enantiomerically pure ethyl (2R,3S)-2-(4-chlorophenoxy)-3-hydroxy-4-phenylbutanoate (out of the four possible stereoisomers), whose absolute configuration was established by single crystal X-ray analysis. Furthermore, reduction of ethyl 2-methyl-2-(4-chlorophenoxy)-3-hydroxybutanoate with a quaternary stereogenic carbon (C-2) gave both of the two expected diastereoisomers with ee = 95% and 96%. Insight into the mechanism of baker's yeast-mediated reduction of prochiral ketoesters is also reported. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.