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Asymmetric total synthesis of tetrahydroprotoberberine derivatives and evaluation of their binding affinities at dopamine receptors
Lee, David Y.W.,Liu, Jing,Zhang, Shuzhen,Huang, Peng,Liu-Chen, Lee-Yuan
, p. 1437 - 1440 (2017/03/08)
Cocaine addiction remains a serious challenge for clinical and medical research because there is no effective pharmacological treatment. L-THP, a natural product isolated from Corydalis yanhusuo W.T. Wang, is one of the most frequently used traditional herbs to treat drug addiction in China. Our laboratory first reported that its demethylated metabolites L-ICP, L-CD, and L-CP had high affinity at dopamine D1, D2, and D5 receptors. Here we report the chemical synthesis of these metabolites and other derivatives and their binding affinities at dopamine receptors. The synthesis of these bioactive metabolites will allow further in vivo study of their potential in treating cocaine addiction.
UNUSUAL METHYL TRANSFER IN THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF APORPHINE AND PROTOBERBERINE ALKALOIDS
Schneider, Bernd,Zenk, Meinhart H.
, p. 897 - 904 (2007/10/02)
(S)-Reticuline was triply-labelled with 13C and administrered to cell cultures of Peumus boldus and Berberis stolonifera, which are sources of aporphines and protoberberines, respectively.During incorporation of the labelled precursor into alkaloids of both groups, unexpected transmethylations of the methyl groups were observed by 13C NMR spectroscopy which seem to proceed via demethylation, flux of 13C through the C-1 pool, and remethylation. Key Word Index: Peumus boldus; Berberis stolonifera; Berberidaceae; cell suspension cultures; 13C NMR; reticuline; aporphines; protoberberines; alkaloids; biosynthesis
THE ABSOLUTE CONFIGURATION OF BERBERASTINE AND THALIDASTINE
Zarga, Musa H. Abu,Shamma, Maurice
, p. 3739 - 3742 (2007/10/02)
Optical resolution of (+/-)-tetrahydrojatrorrhizine using (-)-O,O-di-p-toluoyl-d-tartaric acid gave rise to (+)-tetrahydrojatrorrhizine (6) of high optical purity and of known absolute configuration.Oxidation of this enantiomer with lead tetraacetate, followed by acid hydrolysis, furnished alcohols 10 and ll in a 2:1 ratio, whose relative stereochemistry was established from their nmr spectra.Iodine oxidation of the major alcohol 10 led to protoberberinium salt 14 which was found to be dextrorotatory.Since berberastine (1) and thalidastine (2) are also dextrorotatory, they must possess the same absolute configuration as 14.