Studies on the chemistry of rapamycin: Novel transformations under Lewis-acid catalysis
摘要:
The reactivity of rapamycin under mild Lewis-acid catalysis has been investigated. The molecule has been found to be extremely sensitive to basic reagents due to carboxylate elimination beta to the C24 ketone. However, transformations normally effected under basic conditions, such as C-13-C-14 benzilic acid rearrangement Of C28-C30 retroaldol, can be achieved on rapamycin itself by catalysis with ZnCl2 in the appropriate solvent. These are novel transformations that circumvent the protection or masking of reactive functional groups and allow efficient degradation of the molecule for synthetic and biological studies.
Studies on the chemistry of rapamycin: Novel transformations under Lewis-acid catalysis
摘要:
The reactivity of rapamycin under mild Lewis-acid catalysis has been investigated. The molecule has been found to be extremely sensitive to basic reagents due to carboxylate elimination beta to the C24 ketone. However, transformations normally effected under basic conditions, such as C-13-C-14 benzilic acid rearrangement Of C28-C30 retroaldol, can be achieved on rapamycin itself by catalysis with ZnCl2 in the appropriate solvent. These are novel transformations that circumvent the protection or masking of reactive functional groups and allow efficient degradation of the molecule for synthetic and biological studies.
作者:Juan I. Luengo、Leonard W. Rozamus、Dennis A. Holt
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4039(00)78248-7
日期:1994.8
The reaction of rapamycin (1) with different reductive agents has been studied. As expected, the C-14 ketone of the ''tricarbonyl'' unit is the most electrophilic center in the molecule and could be selectively converted to either the alcohol (Zn/AcOH or DIBAL) or to the C-14 methylene (H2S, pyridine/MeOH). Under Luche's conditions, the C-14 carbonyl was protected and reduction took place stereoselectively at both C-24 and C-30 (NaBH4/CeCl3) or exclusively at C-30 (NaBH3CN/CeCl3). Selective reaction at C-30 also took place under Evans conditions with NaBH(OAc)(3). These reactions allow the selective manipulation of the rapamycin ''effector domain''.