P-Lactone ring

The key to the initial success of yield improvement was the addition of solid resins to the production culture (step 1, Table 12.1). The inherent instability of the p-lactone ring of NPI-0052 in aqueous solution,36 such as in the submerged saline fermentation, was overcome by addition of solid resin to the fermentation in order to bind and capture NPI-0052. The addition of resin to the production culture led to an 18-fold increase in yield in a preliminary study (Table 12.1). Further investigation of the resin stabilisation effect on NPI-0052 using the production strain NPS21184 established the conditions for the large-scale resin addition process.37... 

Figure 12.3 (A) Mechanism of inactivation of the 20.S proteasome by NPI-0052. (B) Superposition of NPI-0052 (SalA) and salinosporamide B (SalB) in the P5 subunit of the yeast 20.S proteasome. Each inhibitor is covalently bound to the N-terminal threonine (Tl) via an ester linkage between Thr lOy and the carbonyl derived from the P-lactone ring. In the case of NPI-0052, the chlorine atom is displaced to form a five-membered cyclic ether ring.15...

In the enantioselective total synthesis of p-lactone enzyme inhibitor (-)-ebelactone A and B, I. Paterson and coworkers constructed seven stereocenters and a trisubstituted alkene plus a very sensitive p-lactone ring. The backbone of their strategy applied an aldol reaction / Ireland-Claisen rearrangement sequence and used minimal functional group manipulation. The Ireland-Claisen rearrangement was performed in the presence of an unprotected ketone moiety and set a precedent for this protocol. The diastereoselectivity was 96 4, indicating highly ( )-selective silylketene acetal formation. 

Groll, M., Huber, R., and Potts, B.C.M. (2006) Crystal structures of salinosporamide A (NPl-0052) and B (NPI-0047) in complex with the 20S proteasome reveal important consequences of P-lactone ring opening and a mechanism for irreversible binding. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 5136-5141. 

The 1,6-difunctional hydroxyketone given below contains an octyl chain at the keto group and two chiral centers at C-2 and C-3 (G. Magnusson, 1977). In the first step of the antithesis of this molecule it is best to disconnect the octyl chain and to transform the chiral residue into a cyclic synthon simultaneously. Since we know that ketones can be produced from add derivatives by alkylation (see p. 45ff,), an obvious precursor would be a seven-membered lactone ring, which is opened in synthesis by octyl anion at low temperature. The lactone in turn can be transformed into cis-2,3-dimethyicyclohexanone, which is available by FGI from (2,3-cis)-2,3-dimethylcyclohexanol. The latter can be separated from the commercial ds-trans mixture, e.g. by distillation or chromatography. 

Synthesis of (A) started with the combination of 2,4,6-trimethylphenol and allyl bromide to give the or/Ao-allyl dienone. Acid-catalyzed rearrangement and oxidative bydroboration yielded the dienone with a propanol group in porlactone ring were irons in the product as expected (see p. 275). Treatment with aqueous potassium hydroxide gave the epoxy acid, which formed a crystalline salt with (R)-l-(or-naphthyl)ethylamine. This was recrystallized to constant rotation. 

Lactones whose rings are three or four membered (a lactones and p lactones) are very reactive making their isolation difficult Special methods are normally required for the laboratory synthesis of small ring lactones as well as those that contain rings larger than SIX membered... 

P-Hydroxy acids lose water, especially in the presence of an acid catalyst, to give a,P-unsaturated acids, and frequendy P,y-unsaturated acids. P-Hydroxy acids do not form lactones readily because of the difficulty of four-membered ring formation. The simplest P-lactone, P-propiolactone, can be made from ketene and formaldehyde in the presence of methyl borate but not from P-hydroxypropionic acid. P-Propiolactone [57-57-8] is a usehil intermediate for organic synthesis but caution should be exercised when handling this lactone because it is a known carcinogen. 

Heteratisine, C22H33O5N, crystallises in prisms, has m.p. 262-7° (dec.), [a]f7° + 40° (MeOH), forms a hydrochloride, m.p. 265-270° (dec.), contains one methoxyl and one methylimino group, two active hydrogens and a lactone ring, opened by alkali and re-formed on acidification. In a later paper the same authors describe the isolation of benzoylheteratisine, C29H3,03N, m.p. 213-4°, [a]jf° + 73° (EtOH), which yields a hydrochloride, m.p. 218-221° (dec.), and is hydrolysed to benzoic acid and heteratisine the latter they suggest may not exist naturally in the plant but may be produced from benzoylheteratisine during extraction. 

In an effort to make productive use of the undesired C-13 epimer, 100-/ , a process was developed to convert it into the desired isomer 100. To this end, reaction of the lactone enolate derived from 100-) with phenylselenenyl bromide produces an a-selenated lactone which can subsequently be converted to a,) -unsaturated lactone 148 through oxidative syn elimination (91 % overall yield). Interestingly, when 148 is treated sequentially with lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide and methanol, the double bond of the unsaturated lactone is shifted, the lactone ring is cleaved, and ) ,y-unsaturated methyl ester alcohol 149 is formed in 94% yield. In light of the constitution of compound 149, we were hopeful that a hydroxyl-directed hydrogenation52 of the trisubstituted double bond might proceed diastereoselectively in the desired direction In the event, however, hydrogenation of 149 in the presence of [Ir(COD)(py)P(Cy)3](PF6)53 produces an equimolar mixture of C-13 epimers in 80 % yield. Sequential methyl ester saponification and lactonization reactions then furnish a separable 1 1 mixture of lactones 100 and 100-) (72% overall yield from 149). 

Asymmetric alcoholyses catalyzed by lipases have been employed for the resolution of lactones with high enantioselectivity. The racemic P-lactone (oxetan-2-one) illustrated in Figure 6.21 was resolved by a lipase-catalyzed alcoholysis to give the corresponding (2S,3 S)-hydroxy benzyl ester and the remaining (3R,4R)-lactone [68]. Tropic acid lactone was resolved by a similar procedure [69]. These reactions are promoted by releasing the strain in the four-membered ring. 

FIGURE 2 Polymers that can be derived firom L-serine. (a) Poly-(serine ester) was obtained by ring opening polymerization of N-protected serine-p-lactones (19). (b) Poly(serine imine) has appar-... 

A mechanistic rationale for the observed cw-selectivity has been proposed based on preorganisation of the Breslow-type intermediate and imine through hydrogen bonding 253, with an aza-benzoin oxy-Cope process proposed. Reaction via a boat transition state delivers the observed cw-stereochemistry of the product (Scheme 12.57). Related work by Nair and co-workers (using enones 42 in place of a,P-unsaturated sulfonylimines 251, see Section 12.2.2) generates P-lactones 43 with fran -ring substituents, while the P-lactam products 252 possess a cw-stereo-chemical relationship. 

P2j Z = 2 Dx = 1.363 R = 0.051 for 982 intensities. The lactone has the3T4 conformation, withQ = 13 pm, (p = 337°, andaC-2-C-3-C-4-O torsion-angle of — 120. Both the equatorial and the axial acetoxyl groups have their planes approximately normal to that of the lactone ring. 

Dehydracetic acid, which was mentioned on p. 252, is formed from ethyl acetoacetate by intermolecular condensation. On boiling with acids the lactone ring is broken and a triketocarboxylic add is produced. This acid loses C02 and H20 and is thus transformed into dimethylpyrone O O... 

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