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[*] posted on 4-2-2016 at 14:55
Help with Target Molecule


I want to synthesise the following target molecule but I am not sure if the reactions are possible. I decided to have a second opinion.
I still have to work on the conditions of the reaction but that is not something that literature can not provide.

Thanks in advance.

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Im not sure if the catechol ring will also get fluorinated...
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A NEW MICROSCALE METHOD FOR THE CONVERSION OF PHOSPHORUS OXYACIDS TO THEIR FLUORINATED ANALOGUES, USING CYANURIC FLUORIDE IN SOLUTION AND ON SOLID SUPPORT. Rikard Warme and Lars Juhlin. Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon, 185:2402–2408, 2010

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelis%E2%80%93Arbuzov_reac...








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[*] posted on 4-2-2016 at 15:06


When you add HI across the double bond, are you sure the iodide will go on that carbon? I thought the hydrogen would go on that carbon to give a resonance-stabilized benzyl cation. But I'm not an organic chemist.



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[*] posted on 4-2-2016 at 16:11


Yes that is correct according to Markovnikov's rule but in the products there should be the two of them but in different proportions... I was also thinking of attempting an anti markovnikov reaction with HBr on hydrogen peroxide... I'm not sure if this can be performed with HI instead of HBr but I don't think so.
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[*] posted on 4-2-2016 at 16:38


That has nothing to do with Markovnikov's rule, but the stability of the intermediate.



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[*] posted on 4-2-2016 at 16:57


I think it does due to more stability of the carbonium ion formed but please correct me if I am mistaken
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[*] posted on 4-2-2016 at 17:08


I'm pretty sure the selectivity in that third reaction will exceed 90% for putting the iodine on the benzylic carbon. A carbocation adjacent to the nitro group is not stable.

Consider a Baylis-Hilman-like reaction with benzyl fluorochlorophosphonate on methylenedioxynitrostyrene, perhaps? I don't know how stable the fluorophosphonate group is at all.
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[*] posted on 4-2-2016 at 18:05


It took me some time but I finally found out a described procedure for making (2-bromo-2-nitroethyl)benzene ( http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03302010-153... ) (pp.154) but they did it at -78°C which is not a possibility at all for me.

@clearly_not_atara I am not familirized with the Baylis-Hilman reaction, can you give me an insight on your thoughts?
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[*] posted on 4-2-2016 at 18:57


Doctor Cat, this is a very strange compound you want to make. Would you please tell us of your motivations?



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[*] posted on 4-2-2016 at 19:07


Yes of course. I am looking for more potent inhibitors of the enzyme Aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase related with the treatment of parkinson disease. Current inhibitors are not very potent or do not cross the blood-brain barrier.
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[*] posted on 4-2-2016 at 19:13


Keep us posted! My friend with Parkinsonism may be helped by this...



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[*] posted on 6-2-2016 at 16:18


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they did it at -78°C which is not a possibility at all for me.


This is a common myth. -78ºC is popular exactly because it is the lowest temperature easily obtained in a laboratory. It is achieved by mixing a large amount of dry ice into chilled water-free acetone. That's at least as OTC as anything else we do here, you just need insulated vessels to contain it.

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@clearly_not_atara I am not familirized with the Baylis-Hilman reaction, can you give me an insight on your thoughts?


The Baylis-Hilman reaction allows the SN1 addition of certain electrophiles to an electron-deficient alkene geminal to the EWG. Usually the electrophile is a carbonyl group or imine, but in this case I was hoping a phosphonic halide would work. This would transform 1-nitro-2-phenylethylene into 1-nitro-1-benzyloxyfluorophosphonoyl-2-phenylethylene.

This is an "umpolung" reaction which is made possible by using a nucleophile which reversibly forms an unstable intermediate by reacting with the alkene in a Michael-type addition. Usually the nucleophile is DABCO. The balancing act is then to choose an electrophile which is strong enough to react with the DABCO-alkene complex, but which won't react with DABCO itself. So organic halides are usually out, because of quaternization, and weak electrophiles like esters won't react at all. Phosphonic chlorides may or may not react with DABCO but I'm pretty sure they'll attack the transient carbanion.

Note that I'm assuming some basic familiarity with chemistry because phosphonic acids, especially their acyl fluorides, can be absurdly dangerous and cause a horrifically painful death worthy of a Greek myth (also worthy of the international conventions which prohibit their use). It is not advisable to work with such chemicals if you don't know what you're doing.

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[*] posted on 7-2-2016 at 14:23


Umm. Back in the day, I had a friend with Parkinson's symptoms.

Loading up on precursors for the body's natural pathway to Dopamine, seemed to help her a lot. Tyrosine, orally, several times per day, seemed to relieve a lot of her symptoms.

Also of Note: The tripeptide PLG was getting rave reviews in the literature at that time. Might require insufflation or parenteral administration. Pharm, wasn't very interested in the treatment......probably not patentable, and short shelflife. They were looking for alternatives in the same ballpark, that were a little sexier.

I'll go take a relook at PLG. It was reputed to have dramatic anti-Parkinson's effects.

Yup! Still some information out there. With today's technology, probably an easy make. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanocyte-inhibiting_factor



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[*] posted on 7-2-2016 at 16:25


Please forgive me if I've misunderstood something in your posts, but inhibition of aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AAAD) in the central nervous system is not a mechanism for the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD). The role of AAAD is to produce dopamine by decarboxylation of its immediate precursor, L-DOPA (3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine). If you inhibit this enzyme, there will be no production of dopamine in the CNS - and since the symptoms of PD arise primarily because of a lack of dopamine in certain regions of the brain, inhibiting its production can ONLY make things worse. Many therapies for PD are heavily targeted at increasing the supply of dopamine in the CNS - hence the therapeutic use of L-DOPA (or the administration of tyrosine, which is the biological precursor to L-DOPA).

Now, peripheral AAAD inhibitors, such as carbidopa, are critical drugs for the treatment of PD - but they are important precisely because they do not penetrate the blood-brain barrier. When you take L-DOPA, it can be metabolised easily outside the brain, which has two effects - one, less reaches the brain, where it is needed; and two, there are extensive peripheral side effects. By taking an AAAD inhibitor which cannot enter the brain, you can prevent peripheral metabolism of L-DOPA, thus reducing these problems.

So, in short, peripheral inhibition of AAAD is critical to achieving effective treatment of PD with L-DOPA; central inhibition of AAAD would be entirely counterproductive.

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As an aside, it's rarely a good idea to experiment on humans with poorly studied compounds. Whilst it is entirely true that some compounds, which have never been tested in humans, will go on to become useful and effective drugs, you have to remember - of the millions of compounds known to us (CAS indicates they catalogue over 106 million chemical substances, and add some 15,000 each day; a number of sites suggest that the number of well-defined substances is more like 10 million), only a very small number are clinically useful - and a heck of a lot are actively harmful. It's entirely natural - but completely unreasonable - to approach the treatment of a medical condition with the attitude of "it might help" - because that fails to account for the enormous probability that it won't help, as well as the huge probability that it will actively harm. Don't get me wrong, I fully understand desperation when faced with debilitating or terminal disease, I've been through it personally (both as a patient with chronic pain and a relative of cancer patients), but it's important to remember that - no matter how good your intentions, and no matter how good the preliminary studies you're relying on are - you're massively more likely to harm than to help when attempting to apply untested "therapies" to the treatment of a disease.

You have to remember that the tiniest change to an effective drug can turn it into an inert lump, have it target a different system, or cause it to become a dangerous toxin. Enantiomers can have absurdly different properties; different salts of the same drug can have different properties; and even different crystalline polymorphs of the same compound can have different pharmacological properties.

It's very easy to look through the literature and find all sorts of "highly promising" compounds, which have this or that effect on some disease or other. But the difference between "causes cellular response in a dish" or "effective in an animal model" and "effective (and safe) drug" is enormous. Compounds which show great promise in one stage of testing can fail spectacularly (and, just to emphasise the point, this very recent tragedy in a phase 1 trial was, according to Nature, testing a drug with potential utility in the treatment of PD!) as you move through the various stages of testing required to get a drug to market - for reasons of poor effectiveness, intolerable or dangerous side effects, or even that it simply doesn't move through the body (absorption, distribution, metabolism or excretion) like it needs to in order to be useful. Certainly profitability is an issue - but it usually influences which diseases a company decides to focus on (and developing an effective treatment for age-related diseases like PD is very profitable) rather than which specific drugs they choose to pursue (because it's easy enough to tweak a molecule just a little in order to make it patentable - and probably improve on the properties of the unpatentable one as an added bonus). Then, of course, there's also the enormous body of basic research which is just flat-out wrong - there are so many reasons that the literature can be misleading or outright wrong (most of which are entirely reasonable outcomes from the way the scientific process works, and have nothing to do with deliberate fraud or deception), that any attempt to extrapolate from a small body of positive studies (or from purely bench studies) to "this must work" or "well, it might help, so what's the harm?" is almost certainly doomed to failure (and, probably, to causing more harm than good).

Long story short - seek the advice of appropriately qualified physicians (ideally specialists in the appropriate area - a neurologist who specialises in movement disorders in the case of PD), and if you (or your friends or relatives, as appropriate) are not getting satisfactory results from the treatments that the doctors can offer, you should seek out (with your doctor's assistance, where possible) real clinical trials for which you might be eligible, rather than attempting to self medicate with untested or unknown "therapies". By enrolling in a trial, you know that at least some safety testing has been done; that the drugs you're taking are produced under carefully regulated manufacturing conditions; that you'll be taking the drugs under the close supervision of highly trained medics (often the care and attention received by clinical trial patients far exceeds that which you can get from even the best "regular" doctors); and that the effectiveness of the drug is being properly studied and the results will, perhaps, help you - and others like you - in the longer term.
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[*] posted on 7-2-2016 at 16:44


Thorough as always, ziq. However, I believe that the OP was investigating for the chemical challenge rather than for self-administration or any other kind of use.



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[*] posted on 8-2-2016 at 14:51


You're entirely right, j_sum - I may have read more into the posts above (and focused too much on zed's comments about tyrosine, rather than Doctor Cat's posts) than was warranted. If so, I apologise!
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[*] posted on 8-2-2016 at 15:37


http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00207459008994244

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2502304


Wurtman wrote extensively on nutrient supplementation and increased neurotransmitter release. It isn't rocket science.

Since the side effects of L-Dopa and its ilk are fairly unpleasant, many people have resorted instead to Tyrosine supplementation, to decrease Parkinson's symptoms. Seems to work well for some people.

MIF is also an interesting alternative. Of interest too, is its effect on opiate receptors.

I suppose, I am actually responding to Chemrox. He has a friend who might benefit from the information.

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[*] posted on 30-5-2017 at 12:12


Ummm. Been a while. Recently tried ingesting Olive leaf extract, for an unrelated condition.

Turned out to have an unexpected quality.....Mood elevation!

It's structure suggests it may be boosting brain dopamine levels. Or faking receptors out.

Turns out a major component of Olive leaf extract, is Oleuropein. An ester of 3-4 Dihydroxy-phenethyl alcohol. Awfully close to the structure of Dopamine itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleuropein




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[*] posted on 30-5-2017 at 14:41


It's a bit old now but I just want to say the HI addition has the problem of chewing off your 3-4, methyl ethers.

But the motivation for the OP's TM seems one of those 'let's search for something we can sell rather than investigate something we know works'. I recall seeing many reports about a certain methylenedioxy compound having excellent results with PD, and because it's non patentable...no commercial interest.
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[*] posted on 31-5-2017 at 03:28


In order to be CNS active, the compound has to cross BBB. Therefor the compound needs to be either lipophilic or utilze a dedicated transporter. See http://molpharm.aspetjournals.org/content/61/4/729.short.

The reason why L-DOPA crosses BBB is not lipophilicity but the transporter mechanism. So the question for the fluorophosophonic acid analogue is if there is a suitable transporter. Are there any comparable compounds known where the transporter mechanism has been shown to work?

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[*] posted on 2-6-2017 at 12:40


Ummm. More info on Olive Oil/Oleuropein.

https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3892135/

Interesting papers out there, but some are from odd places. Papers from some regions of the world, have decreased credibility.

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[*] posted on 2-9-2017 at 09:04


Quote: Originally posted by Doctor Cat  
I want to synthesise the following target molecule

I think that your molecule cannot exist, so as it contains both strongly electrophilic (phosphorous halogenide) and nucleophilic (hyroxy- end, especially, amino-groups) fragments which will quickly react each with other.
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