82460-10-4Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Expedient synthesis of deuterium-labelled amides within micro-reactors
Hooper, Julian,Watts, Paul
, p. 189 - 196 (2007)
The pharmaceutical industry relies heavily on the synthesis of small quantities (10-500 mg) of stable, isotopically labelled compounds in the evaluation of new drug candidates for metabolism studies. As a result of the phenomenal cost of labelled materials even the preparation of small quantities can be extremely expensive. In this paper, for the first time, we report that micro-reactor technology may be used to prepare stable deuterium-labelled compounds by conducting all optimization experiments using unlabelled precursors and simply substituting the labelled derivatives once the optimization is complete. Here, we wish to present a simple, general procedure for the synthesis of amides containing isotopic labels demonstrated using [C-2H 3]acetyl chloride 1. The reaction is carried out within a micro-reactor set-up which we believe offers superiority over other reported methods viz requiring stoichiometric quantities of reagents, high containment of the system and generality of the technique, obtaining products in high yields. Copyright
A novel green route for the synthesis of N-phenylacetamides, benzimidazoles and acridinediones using Candida parapsilosis ATCC 7330
Mahajabeen, Pula,Chadha, Anju
, p. 21972 - 21980 (2013/11/06)
Biocatalytic preparation of various substituted N-phenylacetamides was carried out for the first time using whole cells of Candida parapsilosis ATCC 7330 under mild reaction conditions with excellent conversions (up to 93%) and good yields (up to 81%). Arylamine N-acetyltransferase (NAT) from whole cells of Candida parapsilosis ATCC 7330 is implicated in the N-acylation which is known to transfer the acetyl group from acetyl CoA (coenzyme A) to aromatic amines. Mechanistic investigation carried out using deuterated ethanol to find the source of acetyl CoA revealed that the reaction proceeds through the formation of acetaldehyde in situ, which is a potential source for the acetyl group of cytoplasmic acetyl CoA. Furthermore, experiments on regioselectivity, carried out with 2-phenylenediamine (2-PDA) resulted in a cyclised product 2-methyl benzimidazole (conversion 99%). The biocatalyst also mediates the cyclization of 3-(phenylamino)cyclohex-2-enones in the presence of the in situ generated acetaldehyde to form acridine-1,8-diones (conversion up to 70%), which is a green process reported here for the first time. The Royal Society of Chemistry 2013.
