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Yin Y, Wang J, Li J. A concise and scalable chemoenzymatic synthesis of prostaglandins. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2523. [PMID: 38514642 PMCID: PMC10957970 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46960-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2024] [Accepted: 03/15/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024] Open
Abstract
Prostaglandins have garnered significant attention from synthetic chemists due to their exceptional biological activities. In this report, we present a concise chemoenzymatic synthesis method for several representative prostaglandins, achieved in 5 to 7 steps. Notably, the common intermediate bromohydrin, a radical equivalent of Corey lactone, is chemoenzymatically synthesized in only two steps, which allows us to complete the synthesis of prostaglandin F2α in five steps on a 10-gram scale. The chiral cyclopentane core is introduced with high enantioselectivity, while the lipid chains are sequentially incorporated through a cost-effective process involving bromohydrin formation, nickel-catalyzed cross-couplings, and Wittig reactions. This cost-efficient synthesis route for prostaglandins holds the potential to make prostaglandin-related drugs more affordable and facilitate easier access to their analogues.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yunpeng Yin
- Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Chiral Drugs and Zhangjiang Institute for Advanced Study, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Phytochemistry, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
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- Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Chiral Drugs and Zhangjiang Institute for Advanced Study, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
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Varsha V, Radhika S, Anilkumar G. An Overview of Julia-lythgoe Olefination. Curr Org Synth 2024; 21:97-126. [PMID: 37218208 DOI: 10.2174/1570179420666230510104114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2022] [Revised: 02/03/2023] [Accepted: 02/13/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Julia-Lythgoe olefination (or simply Julia olefination) is an olefination process between phenyl sulfones and aldehydes (or ketones) to give alkenes after alcohol functionalization and reductive elimination using sodium amalgam or SmI2. It is mainly used to synthesize E-alkenes and is a key step in numerous total syntheses of many natural products. This review exclusively deals with the Julia-Lythgoe olefination and concentrates mainly on the applications of this reaction in natural product synthesis covering literature up to 2021.
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- Vijayan Varsha
- School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Priyadarsini Hills P.O, Kottayam, Kerala, 686560, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Priyadarsini Hills P.O, Kottayam, Kerala, 686560, India
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- School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Priyadarsini Hills P.O, Kottayam, Kerala, 686560, India
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Itoh T, Hayase S, Nokami T. Synthesis of Selectively gem-Difluorinated Molecules; Chiral gem-Difluorocyclopropanes via Chemo-Enzymatic Reaction and gem-Difluorinated Compounds via Radical Reaction. CHEM REC 2023; 23:e202300028. [PMID: 36949016 DOI: 10.1002/tcr.202300028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2023] [Revised: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 03/24/2023]
Abstract
The incorporation of fluorine atoms into an organic compound can alter the chemical reactivity or biological activity of the resulting compound due to the strong electron withdrawing nature of the fluorine atom. We have synthesized many original gem-difluorinated compounds and described the results in four sections. The first section describes the synthesis of optically active-gem-difluorocyclopropanes via the chemo-enzymatic reaction; we applied these compounds to liquid crystalline molecules, then further discovered a potent DNA cleavage activity for the gem-difluorocyclopropane derivatives. The second section describes the synthesis of selectively gem-difluorinated compounds via a radical reaction; we synthesized fluorinated analogues of a sex pheromone of the male African sugarcane borer, Eldana saccharina, and used the compounds as proof for investigating the origin of pheromone molecule recognition on the receptor protein. The third involves the synthesis of 2,2-difluorinated-esters by visible light-driven radical addition of 2,2-difluoroacetate with alkenes or alkynes in the presence of an organic pigment. The last section describes the synthesis of gem-difluorinated compounds via the ring-opening of gem-difluorocyclopropanes. We further developed a novel method of synthesizing gem-difluorohomoallylic alcohols via the ring-opening of gem-difluorocyclopropane and aerobic oxidation by photo-irradiation in the presence of an organic pigment. Since gem-difluorinated compounds that were prepared by the present method have two olefinic moieties with a different reactivity at the terminal position, we accomplished the synthesis of four types of gem-difluorinated cyclic alkenols via the ring-closing-metathesis (RCM) reaction.
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- Toshiyuki Itoh
- Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute, Emeritus Professor of Tottori University, 41-1 Yokomichi, 480-1192, Nagakute city, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tottori University, 4-101 Koyama-minami, 680-8552, Tottori, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Center for Research on Green Sustainable Chemistry, Tottori University, 4-101 Koyama-minami, 680-8552, Tottori, Japan
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Chen JY, Zou LS, Lai N, Yin ZY, Yuan L, Li ZY. The crystal structure of 2-bromo-1,3-phenylene bis(4-methylbenzenesulfonate), C 20H 17BrO 6S 2. Z KRIST-NEW CRYST ST 2023. [DOI: 10.1515/ncrs-2023-0056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/07/2023]
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Abstract
C20H17BrO6S2, triclinic,
P
1
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$P\overline{1}$
(no. 2), a = 8.173(2) Å, b = 8.256(2) Å, c = 16.514(5) Å, α = 89.947(3)°, β = 83.105(3)°, γ = 72.077(3)°, V = 1051.8(5) Å3, Z = 2, Rgt
(F) = 0.0334, wRref
(F
2) = 0.0889, T = 296(2) K.
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- Jue-Yuan Chen
- College of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Hunan University of Science and Engineering , Yongzhou , Hunan 425199 , P. R. China
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- Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering , Guilin University of Aerospace Technology , Guilin , Guangxi 541004 , P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Hunan University of Science and Engineering , Yongzhou , Hunan 425199 , P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Hunan University of Science and Engineering , Yongzhou , Hunan 425199 , P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Hunan University of Science and Engineering , Yongzhou , Hunan 425199 , P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Hunan University of Science and Engineering , Yongzhou , Hunan 425199 , P. R. China
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Hao J, Ding W, Zheng Z, Sun L, Dong J, Li M, Wan W. Hantzsch Ester-Mediated Visible-Light-Induced Radical Ethoxycarbonyldifluoromethylation of Aryl Alkynes: Kinetic-Controlled Stereoselective Synthesis of Z- gem-Difluoroallyl Esters. J Org Chem 2022; 87:13828-13836. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.2c01537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jian Hao
- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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Xu D, Liu J, Han X, Huang S, Yang X. A novel total synthesis of (+)-brazilin. SYNTHETIC COMMUN 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/00397911.2022.2047732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Dongdong Xu
- College of Biomedical Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Jinzhong, China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Jinzhong, China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Jinzhong, China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Jinzhong, China
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- Laboratory Animal Center, Shanxi Cancer Institute, Taiyuan, China
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Ye F, Ge Y, Spannenberg A, Neumann H, Xu LW, Beller M. 3,3-Difluoroallyl ammonium salts: highly versatile, stable and selective gem-difluoroallylation reagents. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3257. [PMID: 34059673 PMCID: PMC8167079 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23504-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/30/2021] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The selective synthesis of fluorinated organic molecules continues to be of major importance for the development of bioactive compounds (agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals) as well as unique materials. Among the established synthetic toolbox for incorporation of fluorine-containing units, efficient and general reagents for introducing -CF2- groups have been largely neglected. Here, we present the synthesis of 3,3-difluoropropen-1-yl ammonium salts (DFPAs) as stable, and scalable gem-difluoromethylation reagents, which allow for the direct reaction with a wide range of fascinating nucleophiles. DFPAs smoothly react with N-, O-, S-, Se-, and C-nucleophiles under mild conditions without necessity of metal catalysts with exclusive regioselectivity. In this way, the presented reagents also permit the straightforward preparation of many analogues of existing pharmaceuticals.
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- Fei Ye
- Key Laboratory of Organosilicon Chemistry and Material Technology of Ministry of Education, and Key Laboratory of Organosilicon Material Technology of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou Normal University, No. 2318, Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, 311121, PR China
- Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis, Albert-Einstein-Str. 29a, Rostock, 18059, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis, Albert-Einstein-Str. 29a, Rostock, 18059, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis, Albert-Einstein-Str. 29a, Rostock, 18059, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis, Albert-Einstein-Str. 29a, Rostock, 18059, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Organosilicon Chemistry and Material Technology of Ministry of Education, and Key Laboratory of Organosilicon Material Technology of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou Normal University, No. 2318, Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, 311121, PR China
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- Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis, Albert-Einstein-Str. 29a, Rostock, 18059, Germany.
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Vostrikov NS, Zagitov VV, Ivanov SP, Lobov AN, Gabdrakhmanova SF, Miftakhov MS. Fluorine containing analogues of cloprostenol. J Fluor Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluchem.2020.109552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Huang S, Ou W, Li W, Xiao H, Pang Y, Zhou Y, Wang X, Yang X, Wang L. A total synthesis of (+)-brazilin. Tetrahedron Lett 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2020.152052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Kučera R, Goetzke FW, Fletcher SP. An Asymmetric Suzuki-Miyaura Approach to Prostaglandins: Synthesis of Tafluprost. Org Lett 2020; 22:2991-2994. [PMID: 32216289 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c00745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We report the catalytic asymmetric synthesis of Tafluprost (1), a prostaglandin analogue. This synthesis demonstrates a new approach to prostaglandins involving symmetrization and desymmetrization of a racemic precursor to control the absolute and relative stereochemistry of the cyclopentyl core. Key steps include a diastereo- and enantioselective Rh-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura reaction of a racemic bicyclic allyl chloride and an alkenyl boronic acid and a regio- and diastereoselective Pd-catalyzed Tsuji-Trost reaction with an enolate surrogate.
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- Roman Kučera
- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Chemistry Research Laboratory, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Chemistry Research Laboratory, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Chemistry Research Laboratory, 12 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
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Peng H, Chen FE. Recent advances in asymmetric total synthesis of prostaglandins. Org Biomol Chem 2018; 15:6281-6301. [PMID: 28737187 DOI: 10.1039/c7ob01341h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Prostaglandins (PGs) are a series of hormone-like chemical messengers and play a critical role in regulating physiological activity. The diversified therapeutic activities and complex molecular architectures of PGs have attracted special attention, and huge progress has been made in asymmetric total synthesis and discovery of pharmaceutically useful drug candidates. In the last 10 years, several powerful syntheses have emerged as new solutions to the problem of building PGs and represent major breakthroughs in this area. This review highlights the advances in methodologies for the asymmetric total synthesis of prostaglandins. The application of these methodologies in the syntheses of medicinally useful prostaglandins is also described. The study has been carefully categorized according to the key procedures involved in the syntheses of various prostaglandins, aiming to give readers an easy understanding of this chemistry and provide insights for further improvements.
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- Haihui Peng
- Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China.
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