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Synthesis of the Mammalian Metabolites of Dibenzanthracene: Dibenzanthracene 3,4-Oxide and (-)-(3R,4R)-trans-3,4-Dihydroxy-3,4-dihydrodibenzanthracene
Boyd, Derek R.,O'Kane, Gerard A.
, p. 2079 - 2084 (2007/10/02)
Dibenzanthracene 3,4-oxide (2) and the isomeric oxepine (19) were synthesised simultaneously from a common dibromoester precursor (9).The oxepine isomer (19) was also formed by photoisomerisation of the arene oxide (2).Resolution and absolute configuration assignment of each enantiomer of trans-3-bromo-4-hydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrodibenzanthracene (10) was achieved by chromatographic separation and recrystallisation of the MTPA diastereoisomers (11a/11b).The (+)-(3S,4S)bromo-MTPA ester (11a) was used in a seven-step synthesis of the chiral metabolite (-)-(3R,4R)-trans-3,4-dihydroxy-3,4-dihydrodibenzanthracene (3).The (-)-(3R,4R)-bromo-MTPA ester diastereoisomer (11b) similarly served as a precursor of (3S,4R)-dibenzanthracene 3,4-oxide (2) which spontaneously racemised via an unstable oxepine isomer (18).