TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF NORTHEBAINE, NORMORPHINE, NOROXYMORPHONE ENANTIOMERS AND DERIVATIVES VIA N-NOR INTERMEDIATES

摘要

Families of antagonist-agonists and opiate narcotics are produced from norhydrocodeinone. In a preferred embodiment, norhydrocodeinone is refluxed with sulfosalicyclic dimethylketal and delta-6-enol ether derivatives and is then converted entirely to the ether by the addition of dry tetrahydrofuran simultaneously with the removal of the thus produced ether. The ether is then reacted with methanesulfonic acid and N-bromoacetamide to form the hydrobromide salt of the 7-bromodimethylketal derivative. From this derivative, a variety of products can be derived, including the novel further intermediate 14 hydroxynorcodeinone. The present invention enables derivation using a starting material which, unlike the starting materials of prior art processes, is available in the natural (-) or synthetic (+) form. Thus, the method of the present invention provides the only known route for the synthesis of (+) forms of various derivatives and intermediates, such as (+)-7-bromo-dimethylketal nordihydrocodeinone.