Synthetic method for ceratamine A and B and analogs thereof

US8183365B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · US

Inventors

• Robert S. Coleman · Livonia, US
• Erica L. Campbell · Livermore, US
• Daniel Carper · Wilmington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 11, 2010
• Grant date: May 22, 2012
• Expiry date: Nov 24, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07D487/04
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Methods are provided for preparing compounds of the general formula (I)wherein X1 is an aryl hydrocarbon group optionally substituted with one or more groups independently selected from —R, —NH2, —NHR, —NR2, —OH, —OR, —F, —Cl, —Br, —I, —CF3, —C(═O)OH, —C(═O)OR, —C(═O)NH2, —C(═O)NHR, and —C(═O)NR2; X2 is —H, —R, —NHR, —NR2, —OR, —F, —Cl, —Br, or —I; and R is C1 to C10 hydrocarbyl. The methods comprise a double-dehydrogenation reaction step in which a functionalized aminohydroazepinone skeleton comprising an aminoimidazole ring is reacted with 2-iodoxybenzene to form the imidazo[4,5-d]azepine ring system present in formula (I). Example methods comprising the double-dehydrogenation reaction step are provided as efficient synthetic routes to ceratamine A, ceratamine B, and the des-methyl analogs thereof.