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Chemistry 125: Lecture 74 (and last!)
April 30, 2010
Review:Synthesis of Cortisone,
a Natural Product This
For copyright notice see final page of this file
Cortisone
based on Fieser & FieserAdvanced Organic ChemistryReinhold (1961) pp. 594-599
O
O
CH3
CH3
H
H H
OHCO
CH2OH
Louis F. Fieser (1899-1977)
Reichstein
Tadeus Reichstein Nobel Address
Fishhook to Extract Ketones :
H2N-NH-C-CH2-N(CH3)3
O+
H2N-NH-R+
EtO-C-CH2-N(CH3)3
O+
EtO-C-CH2-ClO
Cl-C-CH2-ClO
HO-C-CH3
O
H2NNH2
EtOHP/Cl2
N(CH3)3
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Cortisol (hydrocortisone)
11
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"Total" Synthesis Woodward (1951)
C D
BA
O
O
CH3
CH3
H
H H
OHCO
CH2OH
LiAlH4
reduction
D?C
O
CH3O
CH3
OH
D?C
O
CH3O
CH3
OH
OH
OH
D?C
CH3O
CH3
HOH
D?C
O
CH3
H
H+/H2O
OH
D?C
CH3O
CH3
HOH
CH3
C
O
CH3O
O
H
H
OH-
H
H+
+
D?C
O
CH3
H
Ac2O
Why losethe top OH
not one of these?hemiacetal
Diels-Alder
via enolate
OH allylic rearrangement
known andreadily available
+ +
CH3CO
Zn:+2
CH3CO2-
H+
cis
trans
trans
Zn
“handle”for B
“handle”for 11C=O
“handle” to modify D
Redox Analysis
D?C
O
CH3
H
"Total" Synthesis Woodward (1951)
C D
BA
O
O
CH3
CH3
H
H H
OHCO
CH2OH
D?C
O
CH3
H
OO
D?C
CH3
H
H
B
OsO4
O
D?C
CH3
H
H
B
OH
OH
O
D?C
CH3
H
H
B
O
O
H+ O=C(CH3)2
(ketal)
O
D?C
CH3
H
H
B
O
OH2 / Pd
enolate-
-
-
“Michael” (1,4 or conjugate)
addition
aldol
Robinson annulation
Robinson and Woodward after an MIT seminar on the Robinson annulation
(photo J.D. Roberts, 1951)
Protecting C=C
“handle”for A
“handle”for 11C=O
protection for D?
O
C
CH3
H
H
B
CH3
"Total" Synthesis Woodward (1951)
C D
BA
O
O
CH3
CH3
H
H H
OHCO
CH2OHO
D?C
CH3
H
H
B
O
O
Abbreviate Ring D(while we work on A)
Protectthe more
reactive position
"Total" Synthesis Woodward (1951)
C D
BA
O
O
CH3
CH3
H
H H
OHCO
CH2OH
O
C
CH3
H
H
B
CH3
O
C
CH3
H
H
B
CH3
N(CH3)PhHO
C
CH3
H
H
B
N(CH3)PhHN
CH3
C
-
-OH-
(catalytic)
NC
C
B
O
CH3
CH3
H
H
OCH3
conjugate addition
H-N(CH3)Ph
OB
H
OCH3
O
B
H O
OB
H OHO
N(CH3)Ph
- -
:
like aldol -unsaturated ketone(also an enamine)
like Claisen
HH
HH
"vinylogous”
H
LORE!
readyfor A
closerto 11C=O
H+
Protectthe more
reactive position
"Total" Synthesis Woodward (1951)
C D
BA
O
O
CH3
CH3
H
H H
OHCO
CH2OH
O
C
CH3
H
H
B
CH3
O
C
CH3
H
H
B
CH3
N(CH3)PhHO
C
CH3
H
H
B
N(CH3)PhHN
CH3
C
- OH-
(catalytic)
NC
OH- (strong)
H2O
ON
C
CH3
H
H
B
CH3
C OO
CH3MgBr H+C
B
O
CH3
CH3
H
H
OCH3
C
CH3
H
H
B
CH3
OO
conjugate addition
A?-
O
N(CH3)PhHlose
HOH+
++
H +H
+
HCH3enolate
"Total" Synthesis Woodward (1951)
CH3
O
C
B
O
CH3
CH3
H
H
D?
O
OA
aldol C D
BA
O
O
CH3
CH3
H
H H
OHCO
CH2OHnow work on D
A all set
"Total" Synthesis Woodward (1951)
CH3
H
D?
O
O
C D
BA
O
O
CH3
CH3
H
H H
OHCO
CH2OH
CH3
H
D?
OH
OH
H+
H2O
CH3
H
O
H
O H
CH3
H
D?
O
O
I
H
HO
O-
O
Formal (or "Relay")
This conversion was known from previous cortisone studies!
1) K2Cr2O7
OB
A
C-OHCH3
H
D
O
CH3 HC
BH4-
CCH3
H
D!
O
aldol
base
-H2O
I
OO-
O
O
H/ resolved (1909 method)
/ H2-cat
-IO3- pericyclic
H
2) CH2=N2
hydrolyze acetal
new “acetal”
reduces ketone
not ester
CH3
not(luck)
not
precipitated 3 from 90% EtOHby natural “digitonin”
But What Was the Yield?
Intellectual Problem Solved.
Sequential (40 steps @ 80%) 0.01% yield
Convergent (4x9 steps + 2) 9% yield99
99
A
B
C
D
Product
E
F
Cortisone Synthesis (Practical)
Choose an appropriate,readily availablestarting material.
properlymethylatedtetracyclic
carbonskeleton
with properstereochemistryat key positions
and functionalgroups at or near
some of the proper positions
but
from ox bile1946-49
Merck made 1 kg cortisonefrom 600 kg
of this bile acid
?
Br?Br
Br
?O
1949Merck
$200/gm
Cortisone Synthesis (Practical)
Pregnancyhormone
~1955$0.48/gm
Abundant ina Mexican yam
Russell Marker
Vitamin B12
(1973)
Albert Eschenmoser
ETH Zurich
Robert Burns Woodward
(1917-1979) Harvard
During this work RBW discovered control of stereochemistry by orbital symmetry(pericyclic reactions)
with ~100 co-workersincluding…
postdoctoral Woodward collaborator
Yoshito Kishi(instructor Nagoya Univ.)
WOODWARD, PURE APPL CHEM 25: 283 (1971)
Kishi joined and then succeeded Woodward as professor at Harvard.
Palytoxin 62 Stereogenic Centers
42 Functional GroupsProtected 8 Different Ways
Convergent from 8 Pieces
Kishi et al. 1994
1020 stereoisomers7 E/Z Double Bonds
C123H213NO53
E7389 being developed commercially for breast cancer by Eisai Pharmaceutical
O
O
O
O O
O
O
O
O
HO
HO
MeO
O
H
H H
MeH
H
H
O O
OMe
OO
O
O
O
OO
Me
HH
H
H
H2N
OH
E7389halichondrin B C.1-C.38 macrolide
"In Vitro and In Vivo Anticancer Activities of Synthetic Macrocyclic Ketone Analogues of Halichondrin B"M.J. Towle, K.A. Salvato, J. Budrow, B.F. Wels, G. Kuznetsov, K.K. Aalfs, S. Welsh, W. Zheng, B.M.Seletsky, M.H. Palme, G.J. Habgood, L.A. Singer, L.V. DiPietro, Y.Wang, J.J. Chen, D.A. Quincy, A.DavisK. Yoshimatsu, Y. Kishi, M.J. Yu, and B.A. Littlefield, Cancer Res., February 1, 2001; 61(3): 1013-1021
SARActive Fragment
of Halichondrin B
"Simplified" Versionof Active Fragmentis Drug Candidate
E7389
~ 100,000 configurational isomers!
Friedrich Wöhler(1800-1882)
Organic Synthesis has comea long way from urea.
"Perhaps you still remember the experiment I carried out in that fortunate time when I was working with you, in which I found that whenever one tries to react cyanic acid with ammonia a crystalline substance appears which is inert, behaving neither like cyanate nor like ammonia."
To Berzelius (1828)
End of Lecture 74April 30, 2010
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