Epoxides of Phytosphingosine and Derivatives, Potential Inhibitors of Sphingosine Biosynthesis
β Scribed by Birk, Rolf ;Sandhoff, Konrad ;Schmidt, Richard R.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 458 KB
- Volume
- 1993
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0947-3440
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
2,4βOβBenzylideneβDβthreose (1) was treated with the Grignard reagent obtained from nβoctyl bromide to afford the epimeric tetrol derivatives 3a, b. Regioselective 2βOβmesylation and subsequent azido group introduction furnished azidophytosphingosine derivatives 5a, b. Ensuing 4βOβmesylation, acidcatalyzed benzylidene group removal and then treatment with NaH as a base provided preferentially the desired 3,4βepoxide derivatives 8a, b; subsequent azido group reduction with triphenylphosphane/water yielded the target molecules 9a, b possessing Dβribo and Lβlyxo configuration, respectively.
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been reported previously (24). The methods seem appropriate for estimates of transdermal absorption if a specific analytical procedure is not available and percutaneous first-pass metabolism is not extensive.
During 'H-NMR and gas chromatographichnass spectrometric analytical investigations of the enone epoxides 2a-5, which are of interest as tautomers of dienol epoxides implicated in the biosynthesis of catecholestrogens, silylation reactions were observed to yield a derivative 21 of one of the putative