125-28-0Relevant articles and documents
Practical and high-yield syntheses of dihydromorphine from tetrahydrothebaine and efficient syntheses of (8S)-8-bromomorphide
Przybyl, Anna K.,Flippen-Anderson, Judith L.,Jacobson, Arthur E.,Rice, Kenner C.
, p. 2010 - 2013 (2003)
A practical method for the conversion of tetrahydrothebaine to dihydromorphine in 92% yield is described. The procedure should allow more efficient production of opium products and may be easily modified for large-scale synthesis. The conversion of codeine to (8S)-8-bromomorphide, a potentially valuable intermediate to 6-demethoxyoripavine and derivatives, is also described. The absolute configuration of (8S)-8-bromomorphide was determined by a single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of the hydrobromide salt.
A rapid, nearly quantitative conversion of codeine to hydrocodone
Black, T. Howard,Forsee, Jennifer C.,Probst, Donald A.
, p. 3195 - 3201 (2000)
A very rapid, two-step, virtually quantitative synthesis of hydrocodone from codeine, via the intermediacy of dihydrocodeine, has been developed.
Programmed serial stereochemical relay and its application in the synthesis of morphinans
Park, Kun Ho,Chen, Rui,Chen, David Y.-K.
, p. 7031 - 7037 (2017/10/05)
Herein we report a rationally designed, serial point-to-axial and axial-to-point stereoinduction and its integration into multi-step and target-oriented organic synthesis. In this proof-of-concept study, the configurational stability of several carefully designed atropisomeric intermediates and the fidelity of their unconventional stereoinductions were systematically investigated. The highly functionalized prepared synthetic intermediate was further applied in a novel chemical method to access the morphinans and it is potentially applicable to other structurally related alkaloids.
Enantioselective synthesis of (-)-dihydrocodeine and formal synthesis of (-)-thebaine, (-)-codeine, and (-)-morphine from a deprotonated α-aminonitrile
Geffe, Mario,Opatz, Till
, p. 5282 - 5285 (2015/02/19)
The α-benzylation of a deprotonated bicyclic α-aminonitrile, followed by Noyori's asymmetric transfer hydrogenation combined with the Grewe cyclization onto a symmetrical A-ring precursor, are the key steps of a short and high-yielding enantioselective synthesis of the morphinan (-)-dihydrocodeine. This compound can be converted to (-)-thebaine in high yield by known transformations, while (-)-codeine and (-)-morphine are available from an advanced intermediate. (Chemical Equation Presented).