The quest for a practical synthesis of morphine alkaloids and their derivatives by chemoenzymatic methods

Accounts of Chemical Research
Josephine W Reed, Tomas Hudlicky

Abstract

We became interested in approaches to morphine in the early 1990s following our immersion into the new program on the enzymatic dihydroxylation of aromatics. Larry Kwart, a former classmate of one of us at Rice University, who worked with our group at Virginia Tech in the mid-1980s, introduced to us the use of blocked mutants of Pseudomonas putida (Pp39D) for the production of arene-cis-dihydrodiols. Larry had gained expertise in microbiology from a postdoctoral stay with David Gibson, who discovered this unique enzymatic transformation, and he helped us to establish a strong program in chemoenzymatic synthesis that continues to this day. Without his pioneering effort, none of our accomplishments in chemoenzymatic synthesis, including the various approaches to morphine, would have materialized. Here we trace the evolution of our approaches to morphine alkaloids and some commercial opiate-derived medicinal agents. The design features and chronology of our approaches are discussed in a way that allows the reader to appreciate a number of errors that were made in conception as well as in execution. Experience acquired from many failed or less-than-effective attempts has finally led to an "almost reasonable" total synthesis, the ke...Continue Reading

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