摘要:
Psicoplanocin A (4a) and psico-cyclopentenylcytosine (4b) represent the first two known examples of carbocyclic ketohexose nucleosides. These two stable compounds combine structural features of two known classes of natural products: neplanocin A and the ketohexose nucleosides psicofuranine (1a) and decoynine (2). Both compounds were synthesized in racemic form from (+/-)-cyclopentenone 5, which in turn was available froM D-ribonolactone. Construction of the surrogate glycon moiety commenced with the attachment of a protected hydroxymethyl fragment onto the ketone carbonyl of 5 via nucleophilic addition of [(benzoyloxy)methyl]lithium to give intermediate 7. Introduction of the requisite nitrogen at the tertiary allylic carbon of 7 was achieved by the BF3.OEt2-catalyzed addition of hydrazoic acid to a generated transitional allylic cation. This method produced the epimeric azides 8a and 8b, and following conversion of the beta-azide (8a) to the corresponding carbocyclic amine, the purine and pyrimidine rings of psicoplanocin A and psico-cyclopentenylcytosine were constructed by conventional methods. An X-ray crystallographic analysis corroborated the structure of psicoplanocin A determined from NOE experiments on the epimeric azides. Both psicoplanocin A and psico-cyclopentenylcytosine were found to be devoid of cell cytotoxicity and in vitro antiviral activity.