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METHODS FOR PRODUCING HYDROXYALKYL TROPANE ESTERS
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Page 11, (2008/06/13)
This invention provides a method for preparing a hydroxyalkyl tropane ester, comprising: (a) contacting a tropane and 1,1'-carbonyldiimidazole to produce an activated tropane ester; (b) contacting the activated tropane ester with an excess of an alkanediol to form a reaction mixture; and (c) maintaining the reaction mixture at a temperature and for a sufficient time for the activated tropane ester to react with the alkanediol to form the corresponding hydroxyalkyl tropane ester. This method may be used to produce hydroxyalkyl derivatives of tropanes such as benzoylecgonine, ecgonine and ecgonidine.
Enantiospecific Synthesis of Natural (-)-Cocaine and Unnatural (+)-Cocaine from D- And L-Glutamic Acid
Lin, Ronghui,Castells, Josep,Rapoport, Henry
, p. 4069 - 4078 (2007/10/03)
Natural (-)-cocaine and unnatural (+)-cocaine have been synthesized enantiospecifically from D-and L-glutamic acid, respectively. The axial-equatorial substitutents were introduced by a stereo-and regiospecific dipolar cycloaddition to the corresponding (1R,5S)- and (1S,5R)-N-BOC-nortropenes with (ethoxycarbonyl)formonitrile N-oxide. A sequence of subsequent stereochemically controlled transformations converted the fused isoxazoline to the requisite β-hydroxy ester. Synthesis of the key intermediate N-BOC-nortropenes involved construction of the 8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octane framework by Dieckmann condensation of cis-5-substituted D- and L-proline esters. For comparison, (1R,5S)-N-BOC-nortropene also was derived by degradation from natural cocaine. The cis-5-substituted D- and L-proline esters were obtained by sulfide contraction and subsequent catalytic hydrogenation to induce stereospecifically the C-5 stereochemistry from D- and L-thiopyroglutamate, which in turn were prepared from D- and L-glutamic acids, respectively.