Synthesis of both enantiomers of nabilone from a common intermediate. Enantiodivergent synthesis of cannabinoids
作者:John W. Huffman、H. Howard Joyner、Melissa D. Lee、Robert D. Jordan、William T. Pennington
DOI:10.1021/jo00006a021
日期:1991.3
Both enantiomers of the synthetic cannabinoid nabilone (4) have been synthesized from a common intermediate, enone 7. Enone 7 was prepared by reaction of [2,6-dimethoxy-4-(1,1-dimethylheptyl)phenyl]lithium with (+)-apoverbenone (2), followed by PDC oxidation. Li/NH3 reduction of 7 gave saturated ketone 9, which, after ether cleavage to 10, afforded (6aS,10aR)-hexahydrodibenzopyran 15 on reaction with SnCl4. Isomerization to 6aR,10aR ketone 16 followed by ether cleavage gave the 6aR,10aR enantiomer of nabilone (4). The 6aS,10aS enantiomer of 4 (24) was prepared from 7 by ether cleavage to 18 and rearrangement to nonracemic tetrahydrodibenzopyran 20 using AlCl3. Dissolving metal reduction of 20 followed by ether cleavage gave the 6aS,10aS enantiomer of nabilone (24). A model sequence employing (2,6-dimethoxyphenyl)lithium at the first step was carried out and the structure of one of the intermediates, ketone 12, was established by X-ray crystallography. A new preparation of apoverbenone (2) has been developed.