Acyl compounds racemization

Amphoteric compounds such as amino acids can be resolved as acid or amine forms after deriving corresponding esters or N-acyl compounds. Racemic alcohols and amines are also resolved by use of optically active isocyanates, where the alcohols and amines are derived the corresponding diastereomeric urethanes or ureas. 

Schering Plough demonstrated the kinetic resolution of a secondary amine (24) via enzyme-catalyzed acylation of a pendant piperidine (Scheme 7.13) [32]. The compound 27 is a selective, non-peptide, non-sulfhydryl farnesyl protein transfer inhibitor undergoing clinical trials as a antitumor agent for the treatment of solid tumors. The racemic substrate (24) does not contain a chiral center but exists as a pair of enantiomers due to atropisomerism about the exocylic double bond. The lipase Toyobo LIP-300 (lipoprotein lipase from Ps. aeruginosa) catalyzed the isobu-tylation of the (+) enantiomer (26), with MTBE as solvent and 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl isobutyrate as acyl donor [32]. The acylation of racemic 24 yielded (+) 26 at 97% and (-) 25 at 96.3% after 24h with an E >200. The undesired enantiomer (25)... 

The lipase-catalysed enantioselective acylation of allylic alcohols in an ionic liquid solvent was demonstrated by Itoh et al. [16] (Fig. 7.7). They found that the acylation rate was strongly dependent on the counter anion of the imidazolium salt, while the lipase-catalysed acylation proceeded with high enantioseleclivity in all ionic liquid tested. Good results were obtained when the reaction was carried out in [bmimT [PFg ] or [bmun" ][BF ]. Other examples of kinetic resolution of allylic alcohols catalysed by lipases in ionic liquids were also reported by these authors [71, 72]. The transesterification of 5-phenyl-l-penten-3-ol under reduced pressure at 27 hPa and 40°C was carried out using methyl phenylthioacetate as acyl donor in [bmim+] [PF ] and [bdmim ][BF ], for obtaining the corresponding acylated compound in optically pure form [71], The acetylation of methyl mandelate catalysed by immobilised P5L in [bdmim ][BF ] is another example reported by these authors about the successful application of ionic liquids as reaction media in racemic resolutions... 

The enantiomer-selective acylation of racemic secondary alcohols using an enzyme is a reliable method for obtaining optically pure compounds in up to... 

These and 10 Al-acyl compounds were tested against influenza A2 in mice. Compounds were dosed either orally, subcutaneously or intraperitoneally 1 hour before and 1, 5, 24, 30, 48 and 72 hours after intranasal infection with 1(X) LDso of virus. Each dose was about 1/10 LDio of drug. All control mice died in 4-5 days and results were expressed as percentage number of survivors on days 6, 10 and 21 after infection. Although the authors claim that no compound was more active than the simple racemic amine hydrochloride (XII, R = = H) or its (- -)-enantiomer comparison is made... 

Lorazepam and its 3-0-acyl, 1-//-acyl-3-0-acyl-, and 3-0-methyl derivatives were baseline resolved on a silica column (X = 230 nm) using a 90/10 hexane/(2/l ethanol/acetonitrile) mobile phase [732], Elution was complete in <30min. The lorazepam peak was quite tailed. The retention of the enantiomers of each of these compounds was determined on six Pirkle-type chiral columns. Eluent composition ranged from 90/10 hexane/IPA to 95/5-> 91.5/8.5 hexane/(2/l ethanol/ acetonitrile) to 77/20/3 70/20/10 hexane/IPA/1,2-dichloroethane. Retention times ranged from 13.5 to 56min. Each pair was adequately resolved under one or more sets of conditions. All results are tabulated. One topic not often addressed in such studies is compound racemization half-lives. Here, neat solvents and experimental mobile phases were used. Water and neat alcohols resulted in 50% racemization in <30 min. The hexane/1,2-dichloroethane/IPA mobile phases yielded racemization times of >50 min. This time increased as the level of IPA decreased. Essentially no racemization occurred t 2 > 5000 min) in neat 1,2-dichloroethane or acetonitrile. 

The Table 8.2 copies an excerpt from this paper to summarize the number of references concerning the racemization of acyl compounds. 

The original commercial source of E was extraction from bovine adrenal glands (5). This was replaced by a synthetic route for E and NE (Eig. 1) similar to the original pubHshed route of synthesis (6). Eriedel-Crafts acylation of catechol [120-80-9] with chloroacetyl chloride yields chloroacetocatechol [99-40-1]. Displacement of the chlorine by methylamine yields the methylamine derivative, adrenalone [99-45-6] which on catalytic reduction yields (+)-epinephrine [329-65-7]. Substitution of ammonia for methylamine in the sequence yields the amino derivative noradrenalone [499-61-6] which on reduction yields (+)-norepinephrine [138-65-8]. The racemic compounds were resolved with (+)-tartaric acid to give the physiologically active (—)-enantiomers. The commercial synthesis of E and related compounds has been reviewed (27). The synthetic route for L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine [59-92-7] (l-DOPA) has been described (28). 

The method is not restricted to secondary aryl alcohols and very good results were also obtained for secondary diols [39], a- and S-hydroxyalkylphosphonates [40], 2-hydroxyalkyl sulfones [41], allylic alcohols [42], S-halo alcohols [43], aromatic chlorohydrins [44], functionalized y-hydroxy amides [45], 1,2-diarylethanols [46], and primary amines [47]. Recently, the synthetic potential of this method was expanded by application of an air-stable and recyclable racemization catalyst that is applicable to alcohol DKR at room temperature [48]. The catalyst type is not limited to organometallic ruthenium compounds. Recent report indicates that the in situ racemization of amines with thiyl radicals can also be combined with enzymatic acylation of amines [49]. It is clear that, in the future, other types of catalytic racemization processes will be used together with enzymatic processes. 

Enantioenriched alcohols and amines are valuable building blocks for the synthesis of bioactive compounds. While some of them are available from nature s chiral pool , the large majority is accessible only by asymmetric synthesis or resolution of a racemic mixture. Similarly to DMAP, 64b is readily acylated by acetic anhydride to form a positively charged planar chiral acylpyridinium species [64b-Ac] (Fig. 43). The latter preferentially reacts with one enantiomer of a racemic alcohol by acyl-transfer thereby regenerating the free catalyst. For this type of reaction, the CsPhs-derivatives 64b/d have been found superior. 

However, the most common and important method of synthesis of chiral non-racemic hydroxy phosphoryl compounds has been the resolution of racemic substrates via a hydrolytic enzyme-promoted acylation of the hydroxy group or hydrolysis of the 0-acyl derivatives, both carried out under kinetic resolution conditions. The first attempts date from the early 1990s and have since been followed by a number of papers describing the use of a variety of enzymes and various types of organophosphorus substrates, differing both by the substituents at phosphorus and by the kind of hydroxy (acetoxy)-containing side chain. 

The antibacterial agent flumequine 280 was synthetized in optically active form by starting with resolution of the two enantiomers of a suitably substituted racemic tetrahydroquinoline through formation of the (lf )-3-bromocamphor-8-sulfonates. After N-alkylation of the (2K)-tetrahydroisoquinoline enantiomer 277 with diethyl ethoxymethylene-malonate to give 278, the quinolizidine system 279 was formed by acylation onto the peri-position. This compound was finally hydrolyzed to afford 280 (Scheme 60) <1999TA1079>. 

Hence, when enantiopure compounds are needed, desymmetrization constitutes a useful alternative to kinetic resolution of racemates. Hydrolases are useful for such transformations, in both hydrolytic and acylation reactions [6]. Meso-compounds have been used extensively in such reactions. The success of such a reaction depends on one of the pro-R or pro-S groups reacting much faster than the other. If the monoderivatized product reacts further, the second step of course gives the doubly reacted meso-product. If the second step favors the minor one of... 

Many such activated acyl derivatives have been developed, and the field has been reviewed [7-9]. The most commonly used irreversible acyl donors are various types of vinyl esters. During the acylation of the enzyme, vinyl alcohols are liberated, which rapidly tautomerize to non-nucleophilic carbonyl compounds (Scheme 4.5). The acyl-enzyme then reacts with the racemic nucleophile (e.g., an alcohol or amine). Many vinyl esters and isopropenyl acetate are commercially available, and others can be made from vinyl and isopropenyl acetate by Lewis acid- or palladium-catalyzed reactions with acids [10-12] or from transition metal-catalyzed additions to acetylenes [13-15]. If ethoxyacetylene is used in such reactions, R1 in the resulting acyl donor will be OEt (Scheme 4.5), and hence the end product from the acyl donor leaving group will be the innocuous ethyl acetate [16]. Other frequently used acylation agents that act as more or less irreversible acyl donors are the easily prepared 2,2,2-trifluoro- and 2,2,2-trichloro-ethyl esters [17-23]. Less frequently used are oxime esters and cyanomethyl ester [7]. S-ethyl thioesters such as the thiooctanoate has also been used, and here the ethanethiol formed is allowed to evaporate to displace the equilibrium [24, 25]. Some anhydrides can also serve as irreversible acyl donors. 

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