Preparation of methyl 2-methoxycarbonylmethyl-6-oxo-1,6-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylate
Preparation of methyl 2-methoxycarbonylmethyl-6-oxo-1,6-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylate
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DOI:
10.1080/00304940409355383
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发表时间:
2004-04-01
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
Bai, D
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作者:
Feng, S;He, XC;Bai, D
Huperzine A,’a Lycopodium alkaloid isolated from Chinese folk medicine, Huperia serrata (Thunb.) Trev., is a potent, reversible inhibitor of acetylcholinesteme. In China, it has been approved as a drug for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Several groups have achieved the total synthesis of huperzine in which the protected tetrahydroquinolone Eketo ester 7 is a common key intermediate. A number of methods have been developed for the preparation of 7 from different starting materials. In the first total synthesis of huperzine A, compound 7 was prepared by Ji et al. from ethyl 2-methyl-6-hydroxynicotinate via a somewhat laborious sequence of reactions. Kozikowski’sgrou~~-~ developed a one-pot, three-component condensation by simply admixing the mono-ethylene ketal of 1, 4-cyclohexanedione, methyl propiolate in ammonia-saturated methanol in a Parr reactor,’O followed by a-carbomethoxylation to obtain 7., Recently, Langlois et al. 679 reported that 7 was obtained from 2-methoxy-6-methylpyridine in five steps with a 43% overall yield. However, the overall yields of 7 obtained by these methods were not satisfactory, requiring the use of organometallic and expensive reagents and under critical reaction conditions. This paper describes a new approach to 7 from dimethyl acetone-l, 3dicarboxylate in 7 steps (Scheme).Commercially available dimethyl acetone-1, 3-dicarboxylate was treated with propiolyl amide in 5% Na. $ O, solution, affording 2-pyridone in 61% yield. After 0-methylation of pyridone 1 with CH, I/Ag2C0, in CHCl,, compound 2 was smoothly reduced with LiAlH, in THF furnishing diol3 in 85% yield. Diol3 was then transformed into 7 via the sequence of reactions reported by Qian et aL8 Diol3 was treated with SOCl, in CHC1, for 2.5 h, leading to dichloride 4