Highly efficient synthesis of fatty acid dopamides
Highly efficient synthesis of fatty acid dopamides
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DOI:
10.1080/00304949809355327
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发表时间:
1998-12-01
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
Matuszewska, I
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作者:
Czarnocki, Z;Matuszewska, MP;Matuszewska, I
Amides of long-chain polyunsaturated acids and biologically important amines have attracted considerable interest in the last decade, especially in connection with the synthesis of biologically active derivatives.’The many methods used for the preparation of these compounds are laborious and give products in poor to medium yields.’12 Having been interested in the synthesis of a series of fatty acid dopamides in connection with their possible neurotransmissing properties,’, 2 we investigated with the “mixed anhydride” procedure. Ia In our hands, however, the method gave a complex mixture of products from which only a trace amounts of the desired amides could be isolated. This fact encouraged us to investigate other possible methodologies for this purpose. We turned our attention to the use of benzotriazol-1-yloxy-tris (dimethy1amino) phosphonium hexafluorophosphate (BOP reagent) which is widely used in peptide chemi~ try.~ A BOP-mediated coupling of protected aminoacids and peptides has proven to be the method of choice for the reactions with unstable or sensitive components. Dopamine and poly-cis-unsaturated fatty acids are known to be prone to oxidation or isomerization side-reactions. We thus anticipated that BOP-mediated coupling under very mild conditions would minimize all undesired transformations. In our procedure, dopamine hydrochloride was mixed with an equimolar amounts of fatty acid and BOP reagent in dry THF. Addition of an excess of methylamine at 0” followed by standard extractive work-up and purification by column chromatography, gave the desired amides 1-5 in good1998 by Organic Preparations and Procedures Inc. 699