Synthesis and redox chemistry of 5-deoxydaunomycin. A long-lived hydroquinone tautomer
作者:Barbara Ann Schweitzer、Tad H. Koch
DOI:10.1021/ja00066a012
日期:1993.6
Reduction of 5-iminodaunomycin with dithionite in anaerobic methanol followed by lowering the pH to 3 and saturating with air led to deamination without glycosidic cleavage to yield 89% 5-deoxydaunomycin. An intermediate observed during the reaction is proposed to be the hydroquinone tautomer, 8-acetyl-12-amino-10-[(3-amino-2,3,6-trideoxy-alpha-lyxo-hexopyranosyl)oxy]-1-methoxy-7,9,10,12-tetrahydro-6,8,11-trihydroxy-5(8H)-naphthacenone hydrochloride (1), which loses ammonia with a half-life of 49 min. Anaerobic reduction of 5-deoxydaunomycin with bi(3,5,5-trimethyl-2-oxomorpholin-3-yl) (TM-3 dimer) in methanol buffered to an apparent pH of 8 yielded 26% recovered 5-deoxydaunomycin, 56% 5,7-dideoxydaunomycinone, and 18% 2-acetyl-11-hydroxy-7-methoxy-5,12-naphthacenedione (5) after 42 h and subsequent exposure to molecular oxygen. The reduction leads to relatively rapid formation of a long-lived transient proposed to be, 8-acetyl-10-[(3-amino-2,3,6-trideoxy-a-lyxo-hexopyranosyl)oxy]-l-methoxy-7,9,10,12-tetrahydro-6,8,11-trihydroxy-5(8H)-naphthacenone (4). Exposure of 4 at its maximum concentration to molecular oxygen yielded 88% recovered 5-deoxydaunomycin and 12% 5. Tetrahydronaphthacenone 4 disappeared with a half-life of 2283 min in the absence of oxygen and 16 min in air-saturated methanol. Mechanistic pathways to the products are proposed in Scheme II. Analysis of the apparent rate constants for disappearance of 4 indicates that 5-deoxydaunomycin undergoes glycosidic cleavage to its 7-deoxyaglycon 8000 times slower than daunomycin upon reduction to the hydroquinone state.