Patent Application
20230310373
This invention relates to substituted 2-Aza-bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-3-carboxylic acid (benzyl-cyano-methyl)-amides of formula 1
and their use as inhibitors of Cathepsin C, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and methods of using the same as agents for treatment and/or prevention of diseases connected with dipeptidyl peptidase I activity, e.g. respiratory diseases.
Dipeptidyl-aminopeptidase I (DPPI or Cathepsin C; EC3.4.141), is a lysosomal cysteine protease capable of removing dipeptides from the amino terminus of protein substrates. DPPI was first discovered by Gutman and Fruton in 1948 (J. Biol. Chem 174: 851-858, 1948). The cDNA of the human enzyme has been described in 1995 (Paris et al.; FEBS Lett 369: 326-330, 1995). The DPPI protein is processed into a mature proteolytically active enzyme consisting of a heavy chain, a light chain, and a propeptide that remains associated with the active enzyme (Wolters et al.; J. Biol. Chem. 273: 15514-15520, 1998). Whereas the other cysteine Cathepsins (e.g. B, H, K, L and S) are monomers, DPPI is a 200-kD tetramer with 4 identical subunits, each composed of the 3 different polypeptide chains. DPPI is constitutively expressed in many tissues with highest levels in lung, kidney, liver and spleen (Kominami et al.; Biol. Chem. Hoppe Seyler 373: 367-373, 1992). Consistent with its role in the activation of serine proteases from hematopoetic cells, DPPI is also relatively highly expressed in neutrophils, cytotoxic lymphocytes, natural killer cells, alveolar macrophages and mast cells. Recent data from DPPI deficient mice suggest that, besides being an important enzyme in lysosomal protein degradation, DPPI also functions as the key enzyme in the activation of granule serine proteases in cytotoxic T lymphocytes and natural killer cells (granzymes A and B; Pham et al.; Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci 96: 8627-8632, 1999), mast cells (chymase and tryptase; Wolter et al.; J Biol. Chem. 276: 18551-18556, 2001), and neutrophils (Cathepsin G, elastase and proteinase 3; Adkison et al.; J Clin. Invest. 109: 363.371, 2002). Once activated, these proteases are capable of degrading various extracellular matrix components, which can lead to tissue damage and chronic inflammation.
Thus, inhibitors of Cathepsin C could potentially be useful therapeutics for the treatment of neutrophil-dominated inflammatory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pulmonary emphysema, asthma, multiple sclerosis, and cystic fibrosis (Guay et al.; Curr. Topics Med. Chem. 10: 708-716, 2010; Laine and Busch-Petersen; Expert Opin. Ther. Patents 20: 497-506, 2010). Rheumatoid arthritis is also another chronic inflammatory disease where DPPI appears to play a role. Neutrophils are recruited to the site of joint inflammation and release Cathepsin G, elastase and proteinase 3, proteases which are believed to be responsible for cartilage destruction associated with rheumatoid arthritis. Indeed, DPPI deficient mice were protected against acute arthritis induced by passive transfer of monoclonal antibodies against type II collagen (Adkison et al.; J Clin. Invest. 109: 363.371, 2002).
In light of the role DPPI plays in activating certain pro-inflammatory serine proteases, it seems desirable to prepare compounds that inhibit its activity, which thereby inhibit downstream serine protease activity. It has been surprisingly found that the bicyclic compounds of the present invention possess potent Cathepsin C activity, high selectivity against other Cathepsins, e.g. Cathepsin K, and in general desirable pharmacokinetic properties.
A compound of formula 1
wherein
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R1 is R1.a and R1.a is independently selected from H, C1-4-alkyl-, F and HO—.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R1 is R1.b and R1.b is H.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R1 is R1.c and two R1.c are together —CH2—.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.a and R2.a is R2.1.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.b and R2.b is R2.1.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.c and R2.e is aryl-; optionally substituted with one, two or three residues independently selected from R2.1; optionally substituted with one R2.3.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.d and R2.d is phenyl; optionally substituted with one, two or three residues independently selected from R2.1; optionally substituted with one R2.3.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.d and R2.d is phenyl; optionally substituted with one, two or three residues independently selected from R2.1 and
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.g and R2.g is selected from
wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.1, wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with R2.2; and
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.e and R2.e is C5 or 6-heteroaryl-, containing one, two, three or four heteroatoms independently selected from S, S(O), S(O)2, O and N, wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.1; wherein nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.2; wherein a carbon atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.3; a nitrogen atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.4.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.f and R2.f is bicyclic C7-10-heteroaryl-, each containing one, two, three or four heteroatoms independently selected from S, S(O), S(O)2, O and N, wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.1; wherein nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.2; wherein a carbon atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.3; a nitrogen atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.4.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.g and R2.g is selected from
wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.1; wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with R2.2; wherein a carbon atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.3; a nitrogen atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.4.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.h and R2.h is selected from pyrazole, thiophene and furane, wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.1; wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with R2.2; wherein a carbon atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.3; a nitrogen atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.4.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.i and R2.i is selected from C6-heterocyclyl- and C7-10-heterocyclyl-, each containing one, two, three or four heteroatoms independently selected from S, O and N and the ring is fully or partially saturated, wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.1; wherein nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.2; wherein a carbon atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.3 or one R2.5; a nitrogen atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.4.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.j and R2.j is selected om
wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.1; wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with R2.2; wherein a carbon atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.3 or one R2.5; a nitrogen atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.4.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.j and R2.j is selected from
wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.1; wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with R2.2; and
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.k and R2.k is selected from
wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.1, wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with R2.2; wherein a carbon atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.3 or one R2.5; a nitrogen atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.4.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.1 and R2.1 is selected from
wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two, three or four R2.1, wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with R2.2; wherein a carbon atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.3 or one R2.5; a nitrogen atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.4.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.m and R2.m is together with R4 and two adjacent carbon atoms of the phenyl ring a 5- or 6-membered aryl or heteroaryl, containing one, two or three heteroatoms independently selected from S, S(O), S(O)2, O and N, preferably pyrazole, naphtene, wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.1, wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.2.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.n and R2.n is selected from aryl-, pyrazole, thiophene and furane; wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two, three or four R2.1 wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with R2.2; wherein a carbon atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.3; a nitrogen atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.4; or R2.n is selected from
wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two, three or four R2.1, wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with R2.2; wherein a carbon atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.3 or one R2.5; a nitrogen atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.4.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.o and R2.o is selected from aryl-, pyrazole, thiophene and furane; wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two, three or four R2.1, wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with R2.2; wherein a carbon atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.3; a nitrogen atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.4.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.p and R2.p is selected from
wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two, three or four R2.1, wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with R2.2; wherein a carbon atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.3 or one R2.5; a nitrogen atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.4.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.q and R2.q is selected from among the substituents (a1) to (q1)
wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two, three or four R2.1; wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other are substituted with R2.2;
Particularly preferred R2.q is substituent (a1) or (c1), wherein
carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two, three or four R2.1; wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other are substituted with R2.2
Particularly preferred R2.q denotes a substituent selected from the group (a1) to (q1), wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with a group selected from among ═O, Me, MeSO2—, Me-piperazinyl-SO2—, morpholinyl, —CN and F, and possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with Me2N—CH2—CH2—, F2CH—CH2—, —CH3 and tetrahydrofuranyl.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.s and R2.s is Phenyl-R2.3,
wherein the phenyl ring is optionally substituted with one or two residues R2.1, wherein
wherein the N-atom is optionally substituted with —R2.2, wherein
Particularly preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.s and R2.s is Phenyl-R2.3,
Particularly preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein
Particularly preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2.s and R4 together denote a group (r1), optionally substituted as described above, in meta and para position of the phenyl ring.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.s and R2.r is selected from among the substituents (a2) to (w2) or
Particularly preferred R2.r is substituent (a2) or (c2).
Particularly preferred R2 is substituted Phenyl-R2.3 wherein R2 together with R4 denotes a group selected from among (a3), (b3), (c3), (d3) and (e3).
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2.1 is R2.1.a and R2.1.a is selected from H, halogen, NC—, O═, HO—, H-A-, H-A-C1-4-alkylene-, R2.1.1-A-, C1-4-alkyl-A-, C3-6-cycloalkyl-A-, C1-4-haloalkyl-A-, R2.1.1—C1-4-alkylene-A-, C1-4-alkyl-A-C1-4-alkylene-, C3-6-cycloalkyl-A-C1-4-alkylene-, C1-4-haloalkyl-A-C1-4-alkylene-,
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2.1.1 is R2.1.1.a and R2.1.1.a is selected from
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2.1.1 is R2.1.1.b and R2.1.1.b is phenyl or selected from
wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.1.1.1, wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with R2.1.1.2; and
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2.1.1 is R2.1.1.c and R2.1.1.c is phenyl or selected from
wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.1.1.1, wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with R2.1.1.2; and
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2.1.2 is R2.1.2.a and R2.1.2.a is selected from H, NC—, C1-4-alkyl-, C1-4-haloalkyl-, C3-6-cycloalkyl-, HO—C1-4-alkylene- and (C1-4-alkyl)-O—C1-4-alkylene-.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2.4 is together with R4 a group R2.4.a and R2.4.a is selected
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2.5 is together with R4 a group R2.5.a and R2.5.a is selected from —C(R2.5.1)═, ═C(R2.5.1)— and —N═; and
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.m and R2.m is together with R4 and two adjacent carbon atoms of the phenyl ring a 5- or 6-membered aryl or heteroaryl, containing one, two or three heteroatoms independently selected from S, S(O), S(O)2, O and N, wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.1, wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two or three R2.2; and
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is R2.a and R2.a is selected from aryl-, pyrazole, thiophene and furane; wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two, three or four R2.1 wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with R2.2; wherein a carbon atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.3; a nitrogen atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.4; or R2.n is selected from
wherein carbon atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with one, two, three or four R2.1, wherein possibly available nitrogen atoms of the ring are optionally and independently from each other substituted with R2.2; wherein a carbon atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.3 or one R2.5; a nitrogen atom of the ring is optionally substituted with one R2.4; and
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R2 is selected from the
For a better understanding of the Table 1 R2—Embodiments of the invention example (E#) 21, can also be read as a group R2, wherein
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R3 is R3.a and R3.a is H.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R3 is R3.b and R3.b is F.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R4 is R4.a and R4.a is selected from F, Cl, phenyl-H2C—O—, HO—, C1-4-alkyl-, C1-4-haloalkyl-, C3-6-cycloalkyl-, C1-4-alkyl-O— and C1-4-haloalkyl-O—.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein R4 is R4.b and R4.b is F; preferably in ortho position.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein A is Aa and Aa is a bond or independently selected
Preferred is a compound of formula 1, wherein
Preferred is a compound of formula 1, wherein
Preferred is a compound of formula 1, wherein
Preferred is a compound of formula 1, wherein
Preferred is a compound of formula 1, wherein
Preferred is a compound of formula 1, wherein
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein
Particularly preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, wherein
Preferably (a1) to (q1) or (r1) to (t1) are independently substituted by a substituent selected from among
═O, Me, MeSO2—, Me-piperazinyl-SO2—, morpholinyl, furanyl, Me2N—CH2—CH2—, F2CH—CH2—, —CN and F.
Preferred are the compounds of formula I, wherein the compounds are selected from the group consisting of examples 2, 3, 6, 16, 43, 155, 193, 249, 250, 254, 283, 284, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 328, 329, 330, 331, 333, 342, 343, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 358 and 359.
Particularly preferred are the compounds of formula I, wherein the compounds are selected from the group consisting of examples 322, 323, 324, 325 and 326.
Preferred are the above compounds of formula 1, in its enantiomerically pure form of formula 1′
wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 have the above mentioned meaning.
Terms not specifically defined herein should be given the meanings that would be given to them by one of skill in the art in light of the disclosure and the context. As used in the specification, however, unless specified to the contrary, the following terms have the meaning indicated and the following conventions are adhered to.
In the groups, radicals, or moieties defined below, the number of carbon atoms is often specified preceding the group, for example, C1-6-alkyl means an alkyl group or radical having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.
In general in single groups like HO, H2N, S(O), S(O)2, NC (cyano), HOOC, F3C or the like, the skilled artisan can see the radical attachment point(s) to the molecule from the free valences of the group itself. For combined groups comprising two or more subgroups, the last named subgroup is the radical attachment point, for example, the substituent “aryl-C1-4-alkyl-” means an aryl group which is bound to a C1-4-alkyl-group, the latter of which is bound to the core or to the group to which the substituent is attached.
Alternatively “*” indicates within a chemical entity the binding site, i.e. the point of attachment.
In case a compound of the present invention is depicted in form of a chemical name and as a formula in case of any discrepancy the formula shall prevail. An asterisk is may be used in sub-formulas to indicate the bond which is connected to the core molecule as defined.
Many of the followings terms may be used repeatedly in the definition of a formula or group and in each case have one of the meanings given above, independently of one another.
The term “substituted” as used herein, means that any one or more hydrogens on the designated atom is replaced with a selection from the indicated group, provided that the designated atom's normal valence is not exceeded, and that the substitution results in a stable compound.
The expressions “prevention”, “prophylaxis”, “prophylactic treatment” or “preventive treatment” used herein should be understood synonymous and in the sense that the risk to develop a condition mentioned hereinbefore is reduced, especially in a patient having elevated risk for said conditions or a corresponding anamnesis, e.g. elevated risk of developing metabolic disorder such as diabetes or obesity or another disorder mentioned herein. Thus the expression “prevention of a disease” as used herein means the management and care of an individual at risk of developing the disease prior to the clinical onset of the disease. The purpose of prevention is to combat the development of the disease, condition or disorder, and includes the administration of the active compounds to prevent or delay the onset of the symptoms or complications and to prevent or delay the development of related diseases, conditions or disorders. Success of said preventive treatment is reflected statistically by reduced incidence of said condition within a patient population at risk for this condition in comparison to an equivalent patient population without preventive treatment.
The expression “treatment” or “therapy” means therapeutic treatment of patients having already developed one or more of said conditions in manifest, acute or chronic form, including symptomatic treatment in order to relieve symptoms of the specific indication or causal treatment in order to reverse or partially reverse the condition or to delay the progression of the indication as far as this may be possible, depending on the condition and the severity thereof. Thus the expression “treatment of a disease” as used herein means the management and care of a patient having developed the disease, condition or disorder. The purpose of treatment is to combat the disease, condition or disorder. Treatment includes the administration of the active compounds to eliminate or control the disease, condition or disorder as well as to alleviate the symptoms or complications associated with the disease, condition or disorder.
Unless specifically indicated, throughout the specification and the appended claims, a given chemical formula or name shall encompass tautomers and all stereo, optical and geometrical isomers (e.g. enantiomers, diastereomers, E/Z isomers etc. . . . ) and racemates thereof as well as mixtures in different proportions of the separate enantiomers, mixtures of diastereomers, or mixtures of any of the foregoing forms where such isomers and enantiomers exist, as well as salts, including pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and solvates thereof such as for instance hydrates including solvates of the free compounds or solvates of a salt of the compound.
As used herein the term “prodrug” refers to (i) an inactive form of a drug that exerts its effects after metabolic processes within the body converting it to a usable or active form, or (ii) a substance that gives rise to a pharmacologically active metabolite, although not itself active (i.e. an inactive precursor).
The terms “prodrug” or “prodrug derivative” mean a covalently-bonded derivative, carrier or precursor of the parent compound or active drug substance which undergoes at least some biotransformation prior to exhibiting its pharmacological effect(s). Such prodrugs either have metabolically cleavable or otherwise convertible groups and are rapidly transformed in vivo to yield the parent compound, for example, by hydrolysis in blood or by activation via oxidation as in case of thioether groups. Most common prodrugs include esters and amide analogs of the parent compounds. The prodrug is formulated with the objectives of improved chemical stability, improved patient acceptance and compliance, improved bioavailability, prolonged duration of action, improved organ selectivity, improved formulation (e.g., increased hydrosolubility), and/or decreased side effects (e.g., toxicity). In general, prodrugs themselves have weak or no biological activity and are stable under ordinary conditions. Prodrugs can be readily prepared from the parent compounds using methods known in the art, such as those described in A Textbook of Drug Design and Development, Krogsgaard-Larsen and H. Bundgaard (eds.), Gordon & Breach, 1991, particularly Chapter 5: “Design and Applications of Prodrugs”; Design of Prodrugs, H. Bundgaard (ed.), Elsevier, 1985; Prodrugs: Topical and Ocular Drug Delivery, K. B. Sloan (ed.), Marcel Dekker, 1998; Methods in Enzymology, K. Widder et al. (eds.), Vol. 42, Academic Press, 1985, particularly pp. 309-396; Burger's Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery, 5th Ed., M. Wolff (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, 1995, particularly Vol. 1 and pp. 172-178 and pp. 949-982; Pro-Drugs as Novel Delivery Systems, T. Higuchi and V. Stella (eds.), Am. Chem. Soc., 1975; Bioreversible Carriers in Drug Design, E. B. Roche (ed.), Elsevier, 1987, each of which is incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
The term “pharmaceutically acceptable prodrug” as used herein means a prodrug of a compound of the invention which is, within the scope of sound medical judgment, suitable for use in contact with the tissues of humans and lower animals without undue toxicity, irritation, allergic response, and the like, commensurate with a reasonable benefit/risk ratio, and effective for their intended use, as well as the zwitterionic forms, where possible.
The phrase “pharmaceutically acceptable” is employed herein to refer to those compounds, materials, compositions, and/or dosage forms which are, within the scope of sound medical judgment, suitable for use in contact with the tissues of human beings and animals without excessive toxicity, irritation, allergic response, or other problem or complication, and commensurate with a reasonable benefit/risk ratio.
As used herein, “pharmaceutically acceptable salts” refer to derivatives of the disclosed compounds wherein the parent compound is modified by making acid or base salts thereof. Examples of pharmaceutically acceptable salts include, but are not limited to, mineral or organic acid salts of basic residues such as amines; alkali or organic salts of acidic residues such as carboxylic acids; and the like. For example, such salts include salts from ammonia, L-arginine, betaine, benethamine, benzathine, calcium hydroxide, choline, deanol, diethanolamine (2, 2′-iminobis(ethanol)), diethylamine, 2-(diethylamino)-ethanol, 2-aminoethanol, ethylenediamine, N-ethyl-glucamine, hydrabamine, 1H-imidazole, lysine, magnesium hydroxide, 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-morpholine, piperazine, potassium hydroxide, 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)-pyrrolidine, sodium hydroxide, triethanolamine (2, 2′, 2″-nitrilotris(ethanol)), tromethamine, zinc hydroxide, acetic acid, 2.2-dichloro-acetic acid, adipic acid, alginic acid, ascorbic acid, L-aspartic acid, benzenesulfonic acid, benzoic acid, 2, 5-dihydroxybenzoic acid, 4-acetamido-benzoic acid, (+)-camphoric acid, (+)-camphor-10-sulfonic acid, carbonic acid, cinnamic acid, citric acid, cyclamic acid, decanoic acid, dodecylsulfuric acid, ethane-1, 2-disulfonic acid, ethanesulfonic acid, 2-hydroxy-ethanesulfonic acid, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, formic acid, fumaric acid, galactaric acid, gentisic acid, D-glucoheptonic acid, D-gluconic acid, D-glucuronic acid, glutamic acid, glutaric acid, 2-oxo-glutaric acid, glycerophosphoric acid, glycine, glycolic acid, hexanoic acid, hippuric acid, hydrobromic acid, hydrochloric acid, isobutyric acid, DL-lactic acid, lactobionic acid, lauric acid, lysine, maleic acid, (−)-L-malic acid, malonic acid, DL-mandelic acid, methanesulfonic acid, galactaric acid, naphthalene-1, 5-disulfonic acid, naphthalene-2-sulfonic acid, 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid, nicotinic acid, nitric acid, octanoic acid, oleic acid, orotic acid, oxalic acid, palmitic acid, pamoic acid (embonic acid), phosphoric acid, propionic acid, (−)-L-pyroglutamic acid, salicylic acid, 4-amino-salicylic acid, sebacic acid, stearic acid, succinic acid, sulfuric acid, tannic acid, (+)-L-tartaric acid, thiocyanic acid, p-toluenesulfonic acid and undecylenic acid. Further pharmaceutically acceptable salts can be formed with cations from metals like aluminium, calcium, lithium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, zinc and the like. (also see Pharmaceutical salts, Berge, S. M. et al., J. Pharm. Sci., (1977), 66, 1-19).
The pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the present invention can be synthesized from the parent compound which contains a basic or acidic moiety by conventional chemical methods. Generally, such salts can be prepared by reacting the free acid or base forms of these compounds with a sufficient amount of the appropriate base or acid in water or in an organic diluent like ether, ethyl acetate, ethanol, isopropanol, or acetonitrile, or a mixture thereof.
Salts of other acids than those mentioned above which for example are useful for purifying or isolating the compounds of the present invention (e.g. trifluoro acetate salts,) also comprise a part of the invention.
The term halogen generally denotes fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine.
The term “C1-n-alkyl”, wherein n is an integer selected from 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, either alone or in combination with another radical denotes an acyclic, saturated, branched or linear hydrocarbon radical with 1 to n C atoms. For example the term C1-5-alkyl embraces the radicals H3C—, H3C—CH2—, H3C—CH2—CH2—, H3C—CH(CH3)—, H3C—CH2—CH2—CH2—, H3C—CH2—CH(CH3)—, H3C—CH(CH3)—CH2—, H3C—C(CH3)2—, H3C—CH2—CH2—CH2—CH2—, H3C—CH2—CH2—CH(CH3)—, H3C—CH2—CH(CH3)—CH2—, H3C—CH(CH3)—CH2—CH2—, H3C—CH2—C(CH3)2—, H3C—C(CH3)2—CH2—, H3C—CH(CH3)—CH(CH3)— and H3C—CH2—CH(CH2CH3)—.
The term “C1-n-alkylene” wherein n is an integer selected from 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, preferably 4 or 6, either alone or in combination with another radical, denotes an acyclic, straight or branched chain divalent alkyl radical containing from 1 to n carbon atoms. For example the term C1-4-alkylene includes —CH2—, —CH2—CH2—, —CH(CH3)—, —CH2—CH2—CH2—, —C(CH3)2—, —CH(CH2CH3)—, —CH(CH3)—CH2—, —CH2—CH(CH3)—, —CH2—CH2—CH2—CH2—, —CH2—CH2—CH(CH3)—, —CH(CH3)—CH2—CH2—, —CH2—CH(CH3)—CH2—, —CH2—C(CH3)2—, —C(CH3)2—CH2—, —CH(CH3)—CH(CH3)—, —CH2—CH(CH2CH3)—, —CH(CH2CH3)—CH2—, —CH(CH2CH2CH3)—, —CH(CH(CH3))2— and —C(CH3)(CH2CH3)—.
The term “C3-n-cycloalkyl”, wherein n is an integer selected from 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8, preferably 4, 5 or 6, either alone or in combination with another radical denotes a cyclic, saturated, unbranched hydrocarbon radical with 3 to 8 C atoms. For example the term C3-8-cycloalkyl includes cyclopropyl, cyclobutyl, cyclopentyl, cyclohexyl, cycloheptyl, cyclooctyl.
By the term “halo” added to a “alkyl”, “alkylene” or “cycloalkyl” group (saturated or unsaturated) is such a alkyl or cycloalkyl group wherein one or more hydrogen atoms are replaced by a halogen atom selected from among fluorine, chlorine or bromine, preferably fluorine and chlorine, particularly preferred is fluorine. Examples include: H2FC—, HF2C—, F3C—.
The term “aryl” as used herein, either alone or in combination with another radical, denotes a carbocyclic aromatic monocyclic group containing 6 carbon atoms which may be further fused to a second five- or six-membered, carbocyclic group which may be aromatic, saturated or unsaturated. Aryl includes, but is not limited to, phenyl, indanyl, indenyl, naphthyl, anthracenyl, phenanthrenyl, tetrahydronaphthyl and dihydronaphthyl.
The term “C5-10-heterocyclyl” means a saturated or unsaturated mono- or polycyclic-ring systems including aromatic ring system containing one or more heteroatoms independently selected from N, O or S(O)r, wherein r=0, 1 or 2, consisting of 5 to 10 ring atoms wherein none of the heteroatoms is part of the aromatic ring. The term “heterocyclyl” is intended to include all the possible isomeric forms. Thus, the term “heterocyclyl” includes the following exemplary structures which are not depicted as radicals as each form may be attached through a covalent (single or double) bond to any atom so long as appropriate valences are maintained:
The term “C5-10-heteroaryl” means a mono- or polycyclic-ring systems containing one or more heteroatoms independently selected from N, O or S(O)r, wherein r=0, 1 or 2, consisting of 5 to 10 ring atoms wherein at least one of the heteroatoms is part of aromatic ring. The term “heteroaryl” is intended to include all the possible isomeric forms. Thus, the term “heteroaryl” includes the following exemplary structures which are not depicted as radicals as each form may be attached through a covalent bond to any atom so long as appropriate valences are maintained:
The invention also provides processes for making a compound of Formula I. In all methods, unless specified otherwise, R1, R2 and n in the formulas below shall have the meaning of R1, R2 and n in Formula I of the invention described herein above.
Optimal reaction conditions and reaction times may vary depending on the particular reactants used. Unless otherwise specified, solvents, temperatures, pressures, and other reaction conditions may be readily selected by one of ordinary skill in the art. Specific procedures are provided in the Synthetic Examples section. Typically, reaction progress may be monitored by thin layer chromatography (TLC) or LC-MS, if desired, and intermediates and products may be purified by chromatography on silica gel, HPLC and/or by recrystallization. The examples which follow are illustrative and, as recognized by one skilled in the art, particular reagents or conditions could be modified as needed for individual compounds without undue experimentation. Starting materials and intermediates used, in the methods below, are either commercially available or easily prepared from commercially available materials by those skilled in the art.
A compound of Formula V, VII and IX may be made by the method outlined in Scheme 1:
As illustrated in Scheme 1, a compound of Formula II, wherein PG represents a protecting group (e.g. tert-butoxycarbonyl), may be reacted with an aqueous ammonia solution, using standard literature procedures for the formation of an amide. For example, in the presence of a base such as N-methyl-morpholine or N-ethyl-morpholine and an activating agent such as O-(7-Azabenzotriazol-1-yl)-N, N, N′, N′-tetramethyluronium hexafluorophosphate (HATU) or O—(Benzotriazol-1-yl)-N, N, N′, N′-tetramethyluroniumtetrafluoroborate (TBTU). The reaction is conveniently carried out in a suitable solvent such as N, N-dimethylformamide. Standard peptide coupling reactions known in the art (see for example M. Bodanszky, 1984, The Practice of Peptide Synthesis, Springer-Verlag) may be employed in these syntheses.
Dehydration of an amide such as in a compound of Formula III or Formula IX to the corresponding nitrile of Formula IV or VII may be carried out by use of a dehydration agent such as (methoxycarbonylsulfamoyl)triethyl ammonium hydroxide, in a suitable solvent such as dichloromethane (DCM).
Reacting an acid of Formula VI using standard literature procedures for the formation of an amide, for example in the presence of a base such as N, N-diisopropylethylamine (DIPEA) and an activating agent such as HATU or TBTU, with an amine of Formula V or VIII in a suitable solvent, provides a compound of Formula VII or IX. Standard peptide coupling reactions known in the art (see for example M. Bodanszky, 1984, The Practice of Peptide Synthesis, Springer-Verlag) may be employed in these syntheses.
The protection and deprotection of functional groups is described in ‘Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis’, T. W. Greene and P. G. M. Wuts, Wiley-Interscience. For example, for the deprotection of tert-butoxycarbonyl, an acid such as formic acid, trifluoroacetic acid, p-toluenesulfonic acid or HCl may be used in a suitable solvent such as water, DCM or dioxane. Another method to deprotect tert-butoxycarbonyl is the reaction with trimethyliodosilane or trimethylchlorosilane in combination with sodium iodide in an appropriate solvent like acetonitrile, DMF or DCM.
During the reaction sequences depicted in Scheme 1 and Scheme 2 a hydroxy group (X=OH) can be converted to a trifluoromethanesulfonyl group (X=OTf) at any level. Especially, a compound IX with X=OH is transformed to the appropriate triflate (X=OTf) by reaction with N,N-bis-(trifluoromethanesulfonyl) aniline, or trifluoromethanesulfonyl chloride or anhydride, in the presence of an organic base e.g. triethylamine, morpholine, piperidine, DIPEA in an appropriate anhydrous solvent, e.g. DCM.
As illustrated in Scheme 2, (transition) metal catalyzed reaction of a compound of Formula VII or IX wherein X is I, Br, Cl or OTf, provides a compound of Formula X or XI. For example, reaction with a boronic acid or the corresponding boronic acid ester, in a suitable solvent such as acetonitrile, in the presence of a suitable catalyst such as 1, 1-bis(di-tert-butylphosphino)ferrocene palladium dichloride and a suitable base such as K2CO3 provides a compound of Formula X or XI. Alternatively, reaction of a compound of Formula VII or IX, wherein X is I, Br, Cl or OTf with a tributyl(vinyl)tin reagent in the presence of a suitable catalyst such as bis-(triphenylphosphin)-palladiumchloride, in a suitable solvent such as dimethylformamide (DMF) and if desirable in the presence of an additive such as tetraethylammonium chloride provides compounds of Formula X or XI. Further, reaction of a compound of Formula VII or IX, wherein X is I or Br, may be reacted with an amine in the presence of a suitable catalyst such as Cu(I)I and a suitable base such as caesium carbonate and a suitable promotor such as L-proline provides a compound of Formula X or XI.
In an inversed fashion compounds of formula VII or IX (X: I, Br, Cl, OTf) can be converted into the corresponding boronic acid derivatives VIIa or IXa, wherein R can be H or lower alkyl independently and the residues R can form a ring. For example, VII or IX can be reacted with bis-pinacolato-diboron in the presence of a suitable catalyst such as 1, 1-bis(di-tert-butylphosphino)ferrocene palladium dichloride and a suitable base such as potassium acetate or sodium, potassium or cesium carbonate or phosphate, in a suitable solvent such as dioxan, dimethylformamide (DMF), or dichloromethane (DCM) to yield the boronic esters VIIa or Ixa, respectively. These can be reacted with appropriate aromatic halides in analogy as above to yield the desired coupling products of formula X or XI.
Further, as illustrated in Scheme 2, reaction of a compound of Formula VII or IX, wherein X is N3 with an alkyne in the presence of a suitable catalyst such as copper(II)sulfate pentahydrate and a suitable reducing agent such as L-ascorbic acid in a suitable solvent such as dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)/water provides a compound of Formula X or XI.
Further modifications of compounds of Formula X, XI and I by methods known in the art and illustrated in the Examples below, may be used to prepare additional compounds of the invention. Dehydration of an amide of Formula XI to the corresponding nitrile of Formula X may be carried out by use of a dehydration agent such as (methoxycarbonylsulfamoyl)triethyl ammonium hydroxide, in a suitable solvent such as DCM.
As illustrated in Scheme 3, (transition) metal catalyzed reaction of a compound of Formula IV wherein X is I, Br, Cl or OTf, provides a compound of Formula XII. For example, reaction with a boronic acid or the corresponding boronic acid ester, in a suitable solvent such as acetonitrile, in the presence of a suitable catalyst such as 1, 1-bis(di-tert-butylphosphino)ferrocene palladium dichloride and a suitable base such as K2CO3 provides a compound of Formula XII.
An acid of Formula VI using standard literature procedures for the formation of an amide, for example in the presence of a base such as DIPEA and an activating agent such as HATU or TBTU, can be reacted with an amine of Formula XII in a suitable solvent. Standard peptide coupling reactions known in the art (see for example M. Bodanszky, 1984, The Practice of Peptide Synthesis, Springer-Verlag) may be employed in these syntheses. Deprotection of functional groups is described in ‘Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis’, T. W. Greene and P. G. M. Wuts, Wiley-Interscience. For example, for the deprotection of tert-butoxycarbonyl, an acid such as formic acid, p-toluenesulfonic acid, trifluoroacetic acid or HCl may be used in a suitable solvent such as water, DCM or dioxane and can be performed on the crude amide coupling product to provide a compound of Formula I. Another method to deprotect tert-butoxycarbonyl is the reaction with trimethyliodosilane or trimethylchlorosilane in combination with sodium iodide in an appropriate solvent like acetonitrile, DMF or DCM.
As illustrated in Scheme 4, amino nitrile derivatives of Formula XIII can be converted to substituted amino nitriles of Formula V via alkylation to compounds of Formula XIV, followed by deprotection of the amino group. During the alkylation step a suitable base is used in an appropriate solvent, using a benzylation agent XV with an appropriate leaving group like Cl, Br, or sulfonates. Especially useful is the use of sodium hydroxide as base in water and DCM under phase transfer conditions using benzyltrimethylammonium chloride as described for example by Naidu et al, WO2011/46873. The protective group is removed under acidic conditions, e.g. aq. HCl in dioxan. The amino nitrile V is further processed as depicted in Scheme 1.
As illustrated in Scheme 5, nitro compounds of formula XV can be reduced to anilines of formula XVI by catalytic hydrogenation under conditions, where the nitrile group is still stable. Better suited are reagents like sodium dithionite, SnCl2 or iron in a suitable solvent like water, methanol, ethanol, acetonitrile or ethyl acetate.
Reacting of 2-halo-benzoic acid, especially 2-iodo-benzoic acid using standard literature procedures for the formation of an amide, for example in the presence of a base such as N, N-diisopropylethylamine (DIPEA) and an activating agent such as HATU or TBTU, with an amine of Formula XVI in a suitable solvent, provides a compound of Formula XVII. Standard peptide coupling reactions known in the art (see for example M. Bodanszky, 1984, The Practice of Peptide Synthesis, Springer-Verlag) may be employed in these syntheses.
The benzoic amide group as in Formula XVII can be protected by an acid labile group, especially by alkoxymethyl or silylalkoxymethyl groups as mentioned for example in ‘Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis’, T. W. Greene and P. G. M. Wuts, Wiley-Interscience. Especially useful is the use of 2-trimethylsilylethoxymethylchloride as alkylating agent after having removed the amide proton by a strong base such as NaH in an inert solvent like DMF, THF or dioxan. The products are compounds of the formula XVIII.
Cyclisation of compounds like formula XVIII can be performed with the aid of a palladium catalyst like Pd(PPh3)4(tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(0) and a base like potassium acetate or sodium, potassium or cesium carbonate or phosphate, especially sodium carbonate in a suitable solvent, e.g. DMF, preferrably under elevated temperature. This results in the formation of compound of the formula XIXa and XIXb, which can be separated or processed further as a mixture.
Compounds like XIXa or XIXb or a mixture thereof can be deprotected in acidic medium. Deprotection of functional groups is described in ‘Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis’, T. W. Greene and P. G. M. Wuts, Wiley-Interscience. For example, an acid such as formic acid, p-toluenesulfonic acid, trifluoroacetic acid or HCl may be used in a suitable solvent such as water, DCM or dioxane and can be performed on the crude amide coupling product to provide a compound of Formula XXa and XXb. Another method to deprotect first the tert-butoxycarbonyl is the reaction with trimethyliodosilane or trimethylchlorosilane in combination with sodium iodide in an appropriate solvent like acetonitrile, DMF or DCM. After that the trimethylsilylmethoxymethyl group can be removed in acidic medium as mentioned above, especially with formic acid again leading to compounds of the formula XXa and XXb.
The following are representative compounds of the invention which can be made by the general synthetic schemes, the examples, and known methods in the art. Starting materials and intermediates were either commercially available and purchased from catalogues of AATPHARM, ABCR, ACROS, ACTIVATE, ALDRICH, ALFA, ALLICHEM, ANICHEM, ANISYN, ANISYN Inc., APAC, APOLLO, APOLLO-INTER, ARKPHARM, ARKPHARMINC, ASIBA PHARMATECH, ATOMOLE, BACHEM, BEPHARM, BIOFOCUS, BIOGENE, BORON-MOL, BOROPHARM, CHEMBRIDGE, CHEMCOLLECT, CHEMFUTURE, CHEMGENX, CHEMIMPEX, CHESS, COMBI-BLOCKS, COMBI-PHOS, DLCHIRAL, EGA, E-MERCK, EMKA-CHEMIE, ENAMINE, EPSILON, FLROCHEM, FLUKA, FOCUS, FRONTIER, ISOCHEM, JW PHARMLAB, KINGSTONCHEM, LANCASTER, MANCHESTER, MANCHESTER ORGANICS, MAYBRIDGE, MAYBR-INT, MERCACHEM, MERCK, MILESTONE, MOLBRIDGE, NETCHEM, OAKWOOD, PHARMABRIDGE, PLATTE, RIEDEL DE HAEN, SMALL-MOL, SPECS, SPECTRA GROUP LIMITED, INC, SYNCHEM OHG, SYNCHEM-INC, SYNCOM, TCI, VIJAYA PHARMA, WAKO, WUXIAPPTEC or were synthesized according to literature or as described below in “Synthesis of starting materials/educts” “Liquid chromatography-mass spectroscopy (LCMS) retention time and observed m/z data for the compounds below are obtained by one of the following methods:
Mixture of stereoisomers can be separated on preparative scale by one of the following chiral SFC methods. 2× describes two columns switched in a row.
R1 (20.0 g, 55 mmol) is suspended in DCM (400 mL) and a solution of R2 (26.4 g, 111 mmol) dissolved in DCM is added. The reaction mixture is stirred for 12 h under argon atmosphere. The reaction mixture is washed with water. The organic layer is dried over MgSO4, filtrated and concentrated. The residue is dissolved in DCM, filtrated by flash chromatography (using solvent mixture cyclohexane/ethyl acetate=70/30) and concentrated to give I-1.1. Yield 97% m/z 287/343 [M+H]+, rt 1.29 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 2 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
To I-1.1 (5.80 g, 17 mmol) in anhydrous dioxane (60 mL) R3 (5.20 g, 20 mmol) and potassium acetate (4.98 g, 51 mmol) are added. The mixture is purged with argon, [1, 1′-Bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene]dichloropalladium(II) (PdCl2(dppf)) (1.38 g, 1.7 mmol) is added to the mixture and heated to 80° C. for 2 h. DCM is added and the mixture is filtrated. The filtrate is diluted with water and extracted with DCM. The organic layer is dried over MgSO4, filtrated and concentrated. The residue is purified by flash chromatography (cyclohexane/ethyl acetate=8/2) and concentrated. Yield 97% m/z 291/335/391 [M+H]+, rt 1.36 min, LC-MS Method V012_S01.
I-1.2 (1.22 g, 5 mmol) and R4 (2.30 g, 5.9 mmol) are dissolved in acetonitrile (25 mL). Na2CO3-solution (2 mol/L, 4.9 mL) and 1,1′-Bis(di-tert-butylphosphino)ferrocene-palladium dichloride (319 mg, 0.49 mmol) are added. The reaction mixture is stirred at 80° C. for 1 h. The crude mixture is extracted with ethyl acetate, washed with half saturated brine. The organic layer is dried over MgSO4, filtrated and concentrated and the residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 59%, m/z=396 [M+H]+, rt 0.96 min, LC-MS Method V012_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 3 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
I-1.3 (1.15 g, 2.91 mmol) is dissolved in acetonitrile. 1.39 g p-toluenesulfonic acid monohydrate is added and stirred for 48 h. The precipitate is filtered off, dissolved in ethyl acetate and washed with saturated NaHCO3-solution. The organic layer is dried over MgSO4, filtrated and concentrated. Yield 78%. m/z 296 [M+H]+, rt 1.03 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 4 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
To R5 (purchased from Aldrich or synthesized in analogy to Tararov et al, Tetrahedron Asymmetry 13 (2002), 25-28) (98 mg, 0.4 mmol) in DMF (1.5 mL) diisopropylethylamine (0.18 mL, 1.0 mmol) and HATU (154 mg, 0.4 mmol) are added and the reaction mixture is stirred for 15 min. Then intermediate I-1.4 (100 mg, 0.3 mmol) is added and the mixture is stirred for 12 h. DCM is added and the mixture is washed with saturated Na2CO3 solution. The organic layer is dried over MgSO4, filtrated, and the residue is concentrated. Then the residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 68%, m/z 419/463/518 [M+H]+, rt 1.29 min LC-MS Method V01_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 5 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
To I-1.5 (120 mg, 0.23 mmol) in acetonitrile, p-toluenesulfonic acid monohydrate (110 mg, 0.58 mmol) is added and stirred for 3 d. The reaction solution is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 47%, m/z 419 [M+H]+, rt 1.16 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
To R5 (7.59 g, 31 mmol) in DCM (300 mL) diisopropylethylamine (4.8 mL, 28 mmol) and HATU (11.5 g, 30 mmol) are added and stirred for 25 min. Then R6 (10.4 g, 28 mmol) and diisopropylethylamine (7.2 mL, 42 mmol) are added and stirred for 3 h. The solvent is evaporated, dissolved in ethyl acetate and washed with water, 0.5 M HCl and aq. NaHCO3 solution (10%). The organic layer is dried over MgSO4, filtrated and concentrated. The residue is purified by flash chromatography (using solvent mixture DCM/methanol=95/5). Yield >95%, m/z 484 [M+H]+, rt 1.18 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 6 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate:
To I-2.1 (12.7 g, 26 mmol) in DCM (130 mL) R2 (12.5 g, 52 mmol) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred for 12 h. The solvent is evaporated, dissolved in ethyl acetate and washed with water, 0.1 M HCl and aq. NaHCO3 solution (5%). The organic layer is dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. The residue is recrystallized from DCM and acetonitrile. Yield 64% m/z 466 [M+H]+, rt 1.30 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 7 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate:
The phenol I-2.1.3 is transformed into the corresponding trifluoromethanesulfonate I-2.2.2: I.2.1.3 (200 mg, 0.46 mmol) is dissolved in anhydrous DCM (1.5 mL). Triethylamine (95 μL, 0.69 mmol) is added and the reaction mixture is cooled to 0° C. R18 (179 mg, 0.50 mmol) is then added and the mixture was stirred at 0° C. for 90 minutes and additional 12 h at room temperature. The mixture is concentrated and the residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 85%, m/z 472 [M+H−BOC]+, rt 0.97 min, LC-MS Method Z011_S03.
To I-2.2 (5.00 g, 10 mmol) in acetonitrile (100 mL) R7 (3.07 g, 11 mmol) is added. The mixture is purged with argon, 1,1-Bis(di-tert-butylphosphino)ferrocene palladium dichloride (0.70 g, 1.1 mmol) and aq. sodium carbonate solution (2 mol/L, 1.07 mL) are added and the mixture is heated to 70° C. for 3.5 h. Ethyl acetate and water are added to the reaction mixture. The organic layer is washed with aq. NaHCO3 solution (5%) and water. The organic layer is dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. The residue is purified by flash chromatography (cyclohexane/ethyl acetate=1/1). Yield 41% m/z 533 [M+H]+, rt 1.25 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 8 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates ((R,S)=1:1 mixture of stereoisomers at the carbon adjacent to the nitrile group):
During the synthesis of intermediates I-2.3.17 and I-2.3.29 the bromide (I-2.2) is transformed into the corresponding dioxaborolane compound. Coupling with aromatic bromides is performed in analogy to the synthesis of intermediate I-1.3 (method A).
Intermediate I-2.3.43 is further processed via hydrogenation before the BOC group is removed (step 4)
To I-2.3.43 (90 mg, 0.19 mmol) in methanol (10 mL) Pd/C (10%, 20 mg) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred under hydrogen (50 psi) for 3 h. Then the mixture is filtered and concentrated. The crude product is carried on with step 4. Yield >95%
In analogy the following intermediates as shown in Table 9 are prepared.
Intermediates I-2.3.74-78 and I-2.3.43.2 are converted to the corresponding nitriles in analogy to step 2 of method A1 to yield the compounds in the following Table 10.
The intermediate I-2.3.7 is combined with appropriate halogenides or acid chlorides before (in step 4) the BOC group is removed
To I-2.3.7 (45 mg, 0.10 mmol) and R17 (19 μL, 0.20 mmol) in DMF (1.5 mL) potassium carbonate (42 mg, 0.30 mmol) is added. The reaction mixture is heated to 80° C. for 12 h. The mixture is purified directly by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 65%, m/z 526 [M+H]+, rt 0.71 min, LC-MS Method X018_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 11 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
The reaction conditions for I-2.3.7.11 differ: Pyridine and dichlormethane instead of potassium carbonate and DMF is used.
Intermediate I-2.3.7.4 is separated according to method chiral SFC B to give the following intermediates as shown in Table 11.1
To I-2.3 (2.35 g, 4.4 mmol) in acetonitrile (50 mL) sodium iodide (1.98 g, 13 mmol) and chlorotrimethylsilane (1.44 g, 13 mmol) are added. The mixture is stirred for 1 h, then methanol is added, stirred for additional 30 min and then concentrated. The residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 47%, m/z 433 [M+H]+, rt 0.59 min, LC-MS Method X011_S01.
To I-2.1 (1.00 g, 2.1 mmol) in dioxane (5 mL) R3 (0.58 g, 2.3 mmol) is added. The mixture is purged with argon. [1,1′-Bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene]dichloropalladium(II) as a complex with dichloromethane (34 mg, 0.04 mmol) and potassium acetate (0.39 g, 3.9 mmol) are added. The mixture is heated to 100° C. for 12 h. Water is added to the reaction mixture, which is extracted with diethyl ether. The organic layer is washed with brine, dried over MgSO4, filtrated and concentrated. Yield 74% m/z 532 [M+H]+
The following intermediates as shown in Table 12a are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate:
During the synthesis of intermediate I-3.1.2, I-3.1.4 and I-3.1.5 instead of R3 5,5,5′,5′-Tetramethyl-[2,2′]bi[[1,3,2]dioxaborinanyl] is used.
During the synthesis of intermediate I-3.1 I-3.1.4 also the corresponding boronic acid is isolated as shown in Table 12b. Either the boronic ester or boronic acid is used for the next steps.
To I-3.1 (295 mg, 0.66 mmol, as boronic acid (I-3.1.6)) in acetonitrile (4 mL) aq. Na2CO3-solution (2 M, 663 μL) is added. The mixture is purged with argon, R8 (154 mg, 0.72 mmol) and [1,1′-Bis(diphenylphosphino) ferrocene]dichloropalladium(II) as a complex with dichloromethane (80 mg, 0.10 mmol) are added. The reaction is stirred at 70° C. for 4 h. Ethyl acetate is added and the mixture is filtrated. The filtrate is washed with water and aq. Na2CO3 solution (10%). The organic layer is dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. The residue is purified by flash chromatography (DCM/i methanol=97/3). Yield 53%.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 13 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate ((R,S)=1:1 mixture of stereoisomers at the carbon adjacent to the nitrile group):
Intermediate I-3.2.64 is separated according to method chiral SFC A to give the following intermediates as shown in Table 13.1
Intermediate I-3.2.74, I-3.2.75, I-3.2.81, I-3.2.82, I-3.2.89, I-3.2.90, I-3.2.113, is further processed via hydrogenation before the BOC group is removed (step 4)
To I-3.2.74 (210 mg, 0.33 mmol) in methanol (10 mL) Pd/C (10%, 90 mg) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred at 50° C. under hydrogen (50 psi) for 6 h. Then the mixture is filtered and concentrated. The crude product is carried on with step 4. Yield 85%, m/z 531 [M+H]+, rt 0.48 min, LC-MS Method X012 S02.
In analogy the following intermediates as shown in Table 17 are prepared.
Intermediate I-3.2.91 is further processed in the following way:
To I-3.2.91 (200 mg, 0.28 mmol) in ACN (3 mL) is added p-toluene sulfonic acid monohydrate (79.67 mg, 0.42 mmol) and stirred at r.t. for 2.5 h. The reaction mixture is diluted with TEA, filtered and purified by reversed phase HPLC.
Yield 68%
Intermediate I-3.2.125, I-3.2.126, I-3.2.129 and I-3.2.131 is further processed via reductive amination before the BOC group is removed (step 4)
To I-3.2.125 (130 mg, 0.266 mmol) in dichlormethane is added 3-oxotetrahydrofuran (27.49 mg, 0.319 mmol) and glacial acetic acid (15.22 μL, 0.266 mmol) and stirred for 45 min at r.t. Sodium triacetoxyborohydride (83.1 mg, 0.372 mmol) is added and the reaction mixture is stirred at r.t. overnight.
The reaction mixture is diluted with dichlormethane and sat. NaHCO3. The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The crude product is used for the next step without further purification.
Yield 99%, m/z 559 [M+H]+, rt 0.44 min, LC-MS Method X018_S02.
In analogy the following intermediates as shown in Table 18 are prepared.
The reaction time for I-3.2.133 and I-3.2.135 is 30 min at r.t. and for I-3.2.134 2 h at r.t. and for I-3.2.136 1 h at r.t.
Intermediate I-3.2.136 is deprotected (see example 359) and further processes via hydrogenation to give example 358:
To example 359 (20 mg, 0.047 mmol) in methanol (3 mL) Pd/C (10%, 5 mg) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred at r.t. under hydrogen (50 psi) for 10 min. Then the mixture is filtered and concentrated. The crude product is purified by reversed phase HPLC to give example 358. Yield 35%, m/z 425 [M+H]+, rt 0.715 min, LC-MS Method Z012_S04.
Intermediate I-3.2.127 is further processed via alkylation before the BOC group is removed (step 4)
To I-3.2.127 (71 mg, 0.15 mmol) in DMF (2 mL) is added 2-bromoethyl methyl ether (29.53 μL, 0.31 mmol) and potassium carbonate (41.36, 0.266 mmol) and stirred overnight at r.t. The reaction mixture is diluted with dichlormethane and water. The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The crude product is purified by reversed phase HPLC.
Yield 40%, m/z 533 [M+H]+, rt 1.05 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
To I-3.2 (187 mg, 0.35 mmol) in DCM (12 mL) R2 (182 mg, 0.77 mmol) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred for 12 h, concentrated, dissolved in ethyl acetate and extracted with 0.1M HCl and water. The organic layer is dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. Yield 86%.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 19 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate:
To I-3.3 (155 mg, 0.30 mmol) in acetonitrile, sodium iodide (134 mg, 0.89 mmol) and chlorotrimethylsilane (114 μl, 0.89 mmol) are added. The mixture is stirred for 2 h, then methanol is added, stirred for additional 30 min and then concentrated. The residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 62%, m/z 420 [M+H]+, rt 0.41 min, LC-MS Method X016_S01.
To I-3.1.2 (150 mg, 0.30 mmol) in DCM (6 mL), triethylamine (85 μL, 0.61 mmol), R112 (55.22 mg, 0.34 mmol) and copper(II)acetate (85 mg, 0.47 mmol) are added. The mixture is stirred for 72 h at r.t. 7M ammonium solution in methanol is added, the mixture is concentrated. The residue dissolved in acetonitrile and filtrated. The product is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 54%, m/z 548 [M+H]+, rt 1.37 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 14 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate
For the synthesis of the intermediates I-3.2.117 and I-3.2.118 to the educt I-3.1.2 with the appropriate amine in MeOH 0.14 eq copper(I)oxide is added (as shown in Table 15).
The synthesis of I-3.2.119 proceeds in the following way: I-3.2.118 (785 mg, 1.49 mmol) is dissolved in THF·LiOH (1.5 eq.) as aq. solution is added and stirred at r.t. for 9 h. The product mixture is acidified with 1 M HCl to pH 5 and purified by HPLC-MS. Yield: 61%.
The amide coupling for synthesis of intermediate I-3.2.120 proceeds in the following way: I-3.2.119 (40 mg, 0.08 mmol) HATU (33.6 mg, 0.088 mmol) and DIPEA (55.3 μL, 0.322 mmol) are dissolved in DMF. The mixture is stirred at r.t. for 15 min. Dimethylamine (120.6 μL, 0.241 mmol) is added, and the reaction mixture is stirred at r.t. for 1.5 h. The product mixture is separated by HPLC-MS.
The fractions are combined and freeze-dried. Yield: 85%.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 16 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate
The reaction conditions for I-3.2.94 and I-3.2.95 differ: Pyridine instead of TEA is used.
The reaction conditions are 80° C. overnight.
The reaction conditions for I-3.2.111 differ: 2 eq of N-Methylmorpholine N-Oxid is added to the reaction.
To I-3.2.4 (82 mg, 0.15 mmol) in acetonitrile, p-toluenesulfonic acid monohydrate (95 mg, 0.50 mmol) is added and stirred overnight at r.t. The reaction mixture is basified with ammonium solution. 0.5 mL water and 1 mL ACN are added. The precipitate is filtered off, washed with ACN and dried. The crude product is triturated with aq. sodium hydrogencarbonate solution, filtered by sunction and dried. Yield 31%, m/z 448 [M+H]+, rt 1.28 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
To I-1.1 (5.00 g, 14 mmol) in acetonitrile (250 mL) p-toluenesulfonic acid monohydrate (3.05 g, 16 mmol) is added and the mixture is stirred for 3 d. The precipitate is filtered off and the solution is washed with acetonitrile. The residue is stirred with aq. NaHCO3 solution (2%), and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer is dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. Yield 78%, m/z 243/245 [M+H]+, rt 0.76 min, LC-MS Method V018_S01.
The further intermediates belong to the following description
To R19 (28.1 g, 104 mmol) and R20 (21.0 g, 95 mmol) in DCM (130 mL) benzyltrimethylammonium chloride (1.77 g, 9.5 mmol) is added. Under strong stirring water (8 mL) and aq. NaOH solution (19 mol/L, 9 mL) are added (exothermic reaction). The reaction mixture is stirred for 12 h. Water is added and the product is extracted with DCM. The organic layer is dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. The crude product is used in step 2. Yield >95%, rt 1.56 min, LC-MS Method V003_003.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 20 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate ((R,S)=1:1 mixture of stereoisomers at the carbon adjacent to the nitrile group):
To I-4.0 (40.8 g, 100 mmol) in dioxane (400 mL) hydrogen chloride solution in dioxane (4 mol/L, 27.5 mL, 9.5 mmol) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred for 12 h. Aq. hydrochloric acid (1 mol/L, 100 mL) is added and the mixture is stirred for additional 2 h. The reaction is concentrated, the residue is stirred with acetonitrile and the precipitate is filtered off. Yield 49%, m/z 243 [M+H]+, rt 0.42 min, LC-MS Method X001_004.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 21 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate ((R,S)=1:1 mixture of stereoisomers at the carbon adjacent to the nitrile group):
To R5 (2.82 g, 11 mmol) in dry DCM (150 mL) diisopropylethylamine (5.8 mL, 33 mmol) and HATU (5.1 g, 13 mmol) are added and the mixture is stirred for 30 min. Then a solution of I-4.1 (2.75 g, 11 mmol) in DCM (50 mL) is added and stirred for 12 ht. The mixture is washed with water, aq. K2CO3 solution (5%) and 1 M HCl. The organic layer is dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. Yield 68%, m/z 466/468 [M+H]+, rt 1.25 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 22 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate: ((R,S)=1:1 mixture of stereoisomers at the carbon adjacent to the nitrile group)
To I-2.2 (300 mg, 0.64 mmol) in acetonitrile (7.5 mL) R9 (142 mg, 0.71 mmol) is added. The mixture is purged with argon 1,1-Bis(di-tert-butylphosphino)ferrocene palladium dichloride (42 mg, 0.10 mmol) and aq. sodium carbonate solution (2 mol/L, 0.64 mL) are added and heated to 70° C. for 2.5 h. Ethyl acetate and water are added to the reaction mixture. The organic layer is washed with aq. NaHCO3 solution (5%) and water. The organic layer is dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. Yield raw product >95% m/z 442 [M+H]+, rt 0.93 min, LC-MS Method Z018_S04.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 23 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate ((R,S)=1:1 mixture of stereoisomers at the carbon adjacent to the nitrile group):
The reaction conditions for I-4.3.28 differ: Under argon atmosphere I-2.2 (250 mg, 0.54 mmol), potassium carbonate (150 mg, 1.07 mmol), copper (I) iodide (10 mg, 0.05 mmol), N,N′-dimethylethylendiamine (25 μL, 0.23 mmol) and 4-methyl-piperazin-2-one (75 mg, 0.66 mmol) in dioxane (10 mL) are heated to 80° C. for 8 d. The reaction mixture is filtered and the solution is concentrated. The residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 30%, m/z 500 [M+H]+, rt 0.98 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The synthesis of I-4.3.30 proceeds in the following way: I-4.3.29 (509 mg, 0.94 mmol) is dissolved in dioxane. LiOH (1.5 eq.) as aq. solution is added dropwise to the solution and stirred at r.t. for 8 h. The product mixture is extracted 2× with DCM. The organic layer is extracted twice with water. The water phase is acidified with 1 M HCl to pH 4, the solvent removed in vacuo to yield the crude product, which is purified by HPLC-MS (Gilson, mass flow 120 mL/min, 10 μM, 200 g Xbridge RP18, ACN/water/NH3). Yield: 44%.
Intermediate I-4.3.19 is additionally treated with BBr3 to give example 120:
I-4.3.19 (600 mg, 0.97 mmol) in DCM (50 mL) is stirred at −5° C. Then boron tribromide solution (1 mol/L in DCM, 2.90 mL) is added dropwise. The reaction mixture is stirred at 0° C. for 90 min and then stirred at room temperature for additional 12 h. The mixture is cooled down again to −5° C. and is quenched with conc. ammonia solution. The mixture is concentrated and purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 5%, m/z 429 [M+H]+, rt 0.81 min, LC-MS Method V018_S04.
The amide coupling for synthesis of intermediate I-4.3.32 proceeds in the following way: I-4.3.30 (35 mg, 0.068 mmol) TBTU (45 mg, 0.14 mmol) and N-methylmorpholine (75 μL, 0.68 mmol) are dissolved in DMF. The mixture is stirred at r.t. for 5 min. 0.5 M ammonia in dioxane (2 mL, 1 mmol) is added, and the reaction mixture is stirred at r.t. for 12 h. The product mixture is separated by HPLC-MS (Waters, 30×100 mm, 10 μM, sunfire RP18, ACN/water/TFA). The fractions are combined and freeze-dried. Yield: 59%.
The following amide intermediates as shown in Table 24.1 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
The reaction conditions for I-4.3.63 differ: I-2.3.82 (100 mg, 0.197 mmol), HATU (82.4 mg, 0.217 mmol) and DIPEA (68 μL, 2 eq) are dissolved in DMF. The mixture is stirred at r.t. for 30 min. Ammonium chloride (63.2 mg, 1.182 mmol) and DIPEA (204 μL, 6 eq) are added, and the reaction mixture is stirred at r.t. for 3 h. The product mixture is separated by HPLC-MS (Waters, 30×100 mm, 10 μM, xBridge RP18, ACN/water/TFA). The fractions are combined and freeze-dried. Yield: 27%.
The reaction conditions for I-4.3.65 and I-4.3.66 differ: DCM is used as solvent instead of DMF.
I-4.3 (348 mg, 0.64 mmol) in formic acid is stirred for 10 min at 40° C. The reaction solution is diluted with DMF and directly purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 86%, m/z 442 [M+H]+, rt 0.65 min, LC-MS Method Z018_S04.
I-2.1 (2.26 g, 4.7 mmol), sodium azide (0.61 g, 9.3 mmol), trans-(1R,2R)—N,N′-bismethyl-1,2-cyclohexane diamine (147 μl, 0.93 mmol), copper(I)iodide (89 mg, 0.47 mmol) and L-ascorbic acid sodium salt (92 mg, 0.47 mmol) are dissolved in ethanol/water=7/3 (60 mL). The mixture is heated to 100° C. for 1.5 h. Water and DCM are added to the reaction mixture. The organic layer is washed with water and brine, dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. The residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 85% m/z 447 [M+H]+, rt 0.91 min, LC-MS Method Z018_S04.
To I-5.1 (1.76 g, 3.9 mmol) in anhydrous DCM (30 mL) R2 (2.35 g, 9.9 mmol) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred for 11 h. The reaction mixture is extracted with 0.5M HCl and water. The organic layer is extracted with half saturated Na2CO3 solution, water and brine. The residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 54% m/z 329 [M+H]+, rt 0.96 min, LC-MS Method Z018_S04.
To R10 (28 mg, 0.20 mmol) in DMSO (1.3 mL) I-5.2 (43 mg, 0.10 mmol) is added. Then copper(II) sulfate pentahydrate (2.2 mg, 0.01 mmol), L-ascorbic acid sodium salt (11 mg, 0.05 mmol) and 100 μL water are added. The reaction mixture is stirred for 12 h. The reaction mixture is diluted with DMF and directly purified by reversed phase HPLC. The achieved substance is dissolved in formic acid, stirred at 40° C. for 10 min and the reaction mixture is purified again by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 34% m/z 470 [M+H]+, rt 0.70 min, LC-MS Method Z018_S04.
To I-3.1 (90 mg, 0.20 mmol) in DCM (4 mL), triethylamine (60 μL, 0.43 mmol), R11 (23 μL, 0.21 mmol) and copper(II)acetate (55 mg, 0.30 mmol) are added. The mixture is stirred for 12 h. 7M ammonium solution in methanol is added, the mixture is concentrated. The residue dissolved in acetonitrile and filtrated. The product is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 32%, m/z 504 [M+H]+, rt 1.00 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 24.2 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
To I-6.1 (40 mg, 0.08 mmol) in DCM (1 mL) R2 (35 mg, 0.15 mmol) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred for 12 h. The reaction mixture is concentrated and the residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 67%, m/z 486 [M+H]+, rt 1.12 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
To I-6.2 (25 mg, 0.05 mmol) in acetonitrile, p-toluenesulfonic acid monohydrate (35 mg, 0.18 mmol) is added and stirred for 12 h. The product is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 86%, m/z 386 [M+H]+, rt 0.98 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
R12 (340 mg, 1.54 mmol), R13 (480 mg, 1.54 mmol), benzyltrimethylammonium chloride (29 mg, 0.15 mmol) and DCM (10 mL) are put together. Under stirring water (250 μL) and sodium hydroxide solution (19 mol/L, 146 μL) are added. The reaction mixture is stirred for 1 h.
Half saturated brine and DCM are added. The organic layer is concentrated and purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 22%. m/z 451 [M+H]+, rt 1.48 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 25 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate ((R,S)=1:1 mixture of stereoisomers at the carbon adjacent to the nitrile group):
To I-7.1 (155 mg, 0.34 mmol) in dioxane (6 mL) aq. HCl (1 mol/L, 361 μL) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred for 1 h. 135 μL aq. HCl (1 M) is added and stirred for additional 30 min. The product is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield >95%. m/z 287 [M+H]+, rt 1.01 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 26 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate ((R,S)=1:1 mixture of stereoisomers at the carbon adjacent to the nitrile group):
To R5 (50 mg, 0.21 mmol) in DMF (1.5 mL) HATU (87 mg, 0.23 mmol) and diisopropylethylamine (143 μL, 0.83 mmol) are added and the reaction mixture is stirred for 15 min. Then intermediate I-7.2 (87 mg, 0.22 mmol) is added and the mixture stirred for 12 ht. The reaction solution is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 81%, m/z 510/454/410 [M+H]+, rt 1.28 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 27 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate ((R,S)=1:1 mixture of stereoisomers at the carbon adjacent to the nitrile group):
Intermediate I-7.3.7 is separated according to method “Chiral SFC F” to give the following compounds of Table 28
To I-7.3 (40 mg, 0.08 mmol) in acetonitrile (1 mL) sodium iodide (14 mg, 0.09 mmol) and chlorotrimethylsilane (12 μL, 0.09 mmol) are added. The mixture is stirred for 20 min. The product is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 39%, m/z 410 [M+H]+, rt 0.96 min, LC-MS Method V018_S01
For example 58 I-7.3 is stirred in formic acid at 50° C. for 10 min in a pressure vessel.
To R5 (102 mg, 0.42 mmol) in DMF (3 mL) diisopropylethylamine (296 μL, 1.70 mmol) and TBTU (136 mg, 0.23 mmol) are added and the reaction mixture is stirred for 15 min. Then R14 (135 mg, 0.42 mmol) is added and the mixture is stirred for additional 1 h. Water is added to the reaction mixture and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer is washed with brine, dried over Na2SO4 and concentrated. Yield 70%.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 29 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate ((R,S)=1:1 mixture of stereoisomers at the carbon adjacent to the amide group):
The reaction conditions for I-8.1.3 and I-8.1.4 differ: HATU is used instead of TBTU.
To I-8.1 (126 mg, 0.29 mmol) in DCM (1 mL) R2 (155 mg, 0.65 mmol) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred for 12 h and then concentrated. Yield 100% m/z 310/354/410 [M+H]+, rt 1.02 min, LC-MS Method V012_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 30 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate ((R,S)=1:1 mixture of stereoisomers at the carbon adjacent to the nitrile group):
To I-8.1 (120 mg, 0.29 mmol) in acetonitrile (7 mL) sodium iodide (132 mg, 0.88 mmol) and chlorotrimethylsilane (106 μl, 0.88 mmol) are added. The mixture is stirred for 12 h, then methanol (7 mL) is added, stirred for 1 h and then concentrated. The residue is dissolved in ethyl acetate, washed with water and brine, dried over Na2SO4 and concentrated. The product is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 19%, m/z 310 [M+H]+, rt 0.86 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
I-7.3.1 (200 mg, 0.39 mmol) and R16 (65 mg, 0.47 mmol) in acetonitrile (5 mL) is purged with argon. 1,1-Bis(di-tert-butylphosphino)ferrocene palladium dichloride (26 mg, 0.04 mmol) and aq. sodium carbonate solution (2 mol/L, 395 μL) are added and heated to 70° C. for 3 h. DCM and water are added to the reaction mixture. The organic layer is dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. The product is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 50% m/z 487 [M+H]+, rt 0.60 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
To I-9.4 (115 mg, 0.24 mmol) in acetonitrile (5 mL) sodium iodide (106 mg, 0.71 mmol) and chlorotrimethylsilane (90 μL, 0.71 mmol) are added. The mixture is stirred for 90 min. The product is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 32%, m/z 387 [M+H]+, rt 0.39 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
I-9.1 (100 mg, 0.2 mmol) and MeI (14.2 μL, 0.23 mmol) are dissolved in 2 mL DMF, and NaH (9.04 mg, 0.23 mmol, as 60% suspension in paraffin oil) is added. After stirring for 12 h at r.t., the mixture is diluted with methanol, filtered and purified by HPLC. The product fractions are freeze-dried to yield 42 mg (41%) I-9.1.1. m/z 501 [M+H]+, rt 0.65 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
Boc deprotection to Example 206 is performed in analogy to the synthesis of Example 9.
To I-7.3.1 (4.0 g, 7.9 mmol) in anhydrous dioxane (50 mL) R3 (2.93 g, 11.5 mmol) and potassium acetate (2.27 g, 23.2 mmol) are added. The mixture is purged with argon, [1, 1′-Bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene]dichloropalladium(II) dichlormethan complex (PdCl2(dppf)) (0.66 g, 0.81 mmol) is added to the mixture and heated to 70° C. overnight. The reaction mixture is diluted with DCM and water. The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 71% m/z 554 [M+H]+, rt 0.74 min, LC-MS Method X011_S03.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 31 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate ((R,S)=1:1 mixture of stereoisomers at the carbon adjacent to the nitrile group):
To I-18.1 (150 m g, 0.27 mmol) in anhydrous ACN (5 mL) (5-chloro-2-iodophenyl)methanamine (72.498 m g, 0.27 mmol) is added and purged with argon. 1,1 bis(di-tert·butylphosphino)ferrocene palladium dichloride (17.66 mg, 0.027 mmol) and a solution of sodium carbonate in water 2 mol/L (0.271 mL, 0.54 mmol) are added, purged again with argon and heated to 70° C. for 6 h. The reaction mixture is diluted with DCM and water. The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The crude residue is used for the next step without further purification. Yield 93% m/z 536[M+H]+, rt 0.71 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 32 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate ((R,S)=1:1 mixture of stereoisomers at the carbon adjacent to the nitrile group):
To I-18.2 (270 mg, 0.25 mmol) in THF (3 mL) methanesulfonic acid (81.87 μL, 1.26 mmol) is added and the reaction mixture is stirred at r.t. overnight. The reaction mixture is concentrated and the residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 14% m/z 435 [M+H]+, rt 0.48 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
To I-7.3.2 (6.0 g, 14.5 mmol) in ethyl acetate (100 mL) tin(II)chloride dihydrate (16.3 g, 72.4 mmol) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred for 12 h. The mixture is set basic with potassium carbonate and aq. sodium hydroxide solution. The organic layer is separated, is dried over MgSO4 and is concentrated. The residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 32% m/z 385 [M+H]+, rt 0.42 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
To R23 (0.70 g, 2.81 mmol) in DCM (20 mL) diisopropylethylamine (1.20 mL, 7.02 mmol) and HATU (1.09 g, 2.81 mmol) are added and the reaction mixture is stirred for 7 min. Then intermediate I-10.1 (0.90 g, 2.34 mmol) is added and the mixture is stirred for additional 12 h. The mixture is concentrated and the residue is purified by flash chromatography (cyclohexane/ethyl acetate=70/30). Yield 90% m/z 615 [M+H]+, rt 0.66 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 33 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate ((R,S)=1:1 mixture of stereoisomers at the carbon adjacent to the nitrile group):
To I-10.2 (800 mg, 1.30 mmol) in DMF (20 mL) sodium hydride (58 mg, 1.43 mmol) is added and the reaction mixture is stirred for 10 min. Then 2-(trimethylsilyl)ethoxymethylchloride (0.25 mL, 1.43 mmol) is added and the mixture is stirred for additional 2 K. Water and DCM is added to the mixture and the organic layer is concentrated. The residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 26% m/z 745 [M+H]+, rt 0.85 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 34 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate:
To I-10.3 (200 mg, 0.27 mmol) in anhydrous DMF (10 mL) tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium (16 mg, 0.01 mmol) and sodium carbonate (58 mg, 0.55 mmol) is added. The reaction mixture is heated to 150° C. for 5 h. Water and ethyl acetate is added to the mixture. The organic layer is dried over MgSO4 and is concentrated. The residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 34% m/z 617 [M+H]+, rt 0.84 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
During this ring cyclization both isomers are obtained; but it is first possible to separated them by reversed phase HPLC on the last step (see step 6).
The following intermediate as shown in Table 35 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate:
To I-10.4 (57 mg, 0.09 mmol) in acetonitrile (5 mL) sodium iodide (42 mg, 0.28 mmol) and chlorotrimethylsilane (35 μL, 0.28 mmol) are added. The mixture is stirred for 90 min. Then methanol (5 mL) is added and the mixture is stirred for additional 15 min. The mixture is concentrated and DCM and water is added to the residue. The organic layer is separated, is dried over MgSO4 and concentrated again. The crude product is carried on with step 6. Yield >95%, m/z 517 [M+H]+, rt 0.62 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
I-10.5 (48 mg, 0.09 mmol) is stirred in formic acid for 48 h. The mixture is purified by reversed phase HPLC. It is possible to separate the both isomers:
I-2.2 (300 m g, 0.64 mmol) in anhydrous toluene is purged with argon. 4-hydroxy-1-methylpiperidine (148.18 mg, 1.29 mmol), allylpalladium chloride dimer (5.88 mg, 0.016 mmol), 2-(di-t-butylphosphino)-3-methoxy-6-methyl-2′-4′-6′-tri-i-propyl-1,1′-biphenyl (18.09 mg, 0.039 mmol), cesium carbonate (314.4 mg, 0.965 mmol) and molecular sieve (4A) are added and purged with argon again. The reaction mixture is stirred at 90° C. for 21 h. Afterwards filtered through a pad of celite, washed with ethyl acetate and concentrated. The crude residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC and freeze dried. Yield 16%.
To I-19.1 (50 m g, 0.1 mmol) in acetonitrile (6 mL) sodium iodide (45 mg, 0.3 mmol) and chlorotrimethylsilane (38.1 μL, 0.3 mmol) are added. The mixture is stirred for 2 h, then methanol is added, stirred for additional 30 min and then concentrated. The residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 34%, m/z 401 [M+H]+, rt 0.31 min, LC-MS Method X012_S02.
To I-2.2 (300 mg, 0.64 mmol) in anhydrous dioxane (8 mL) are added 3-dimethylamino-piperidine (164.96 mg, 1.29 mmol) and cesium carbonate (846.87 mg, 2.57 mmol). The mixture is purged with argon and chloro(2-dicyclohexylphosphino-2′,4′,6′-tri-i-propyl-1,1′-biphenyl)[2-(2-aminoethyl)phenyl]palladium(II) (95.05 mg, 0.13 mmol) is added and stirred at 90° C. for 2 h. The reaction mixture is filtered and concentrated. The residue is diluted with dichlormethane and water. The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The crude product is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 12%.
To I-20.1 (53 mg, 0.1 mmol) in acetonitrile (8 mL) p-toluenesulfonic acid monohydrate (68.70 mg, 0.36 mmol) is added and stirred at r.t. for 6 h. The mixture is concentrated, diluted with methanol and purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 28%, m/z 414 [M+H]+, rt 0.74 min, LC-MS Method 004_CA05.
To I_18.1 (1.5 g, 2.7 mmol) in anhydrous THF (1 mL) under argon atmosphere lithium borhydride (59 m g, 2.7 mmol) is added. The mixture is heated to 50° C. overnight. The reaction mixture is carefully diluted with water and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The crude residue is filtered through a pad of silica gel (cyclohexane/ethyl acetate 1:2). Yield 37%.
To I-21.1 (260 m g, 0.495 mmol) in anhydrous ACN (5 mL) 5-fluoro-2-iodo-aniline (117.28 m g, 0.495 mmol), 1,1 bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene palladium dichloride (36.21 mg, 0.049 mmol) and a solution of sodium carbonate in water 2 mol/L (0.742 mL, 1.48 mmol) are added and purged with argon and heated to 80° C. for 1 h. The reaction mixture is diluted with DCM and water. The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The crude residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 41%, m/z 509 [M+H]+, rt 0.66 min, LC-MS Method X011_S03.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 36 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate ((R,S)=1:1 mixture of stereoisomers at the carbon adjacent to the nitrile group):
To I-21.2 (103 mg, 0.2 mmol) in DCM manganese(IV)oxide (153.65 mg, 8.73 mmol) is added under cooling. The reaction mixture is stirred at r.t. overnight and 1 h at 50° C. Another manganese(IV)oxide (50 mg, 2.84 mmol) is added and stirred for further 2 h at 50° C. The reaction mixture is filtered through a pad of cellulose and concentrated in vacuo. The residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC.
Yield 27%.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 37 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate ((R,S)=1:1 mixture of stereoisomers at the carbon adjacent to the nitrile group):
To I-21.3 (26.4 mg, 0.054 mmol) in acetonitrile, p-toluenesulfonic acid monohydrate (35.98 mg, 0.189 mmol) is added and stirred for 5 h. The reaction solution is purified by reversed phase HPLC. Yield 60%, m/z 389 [M+H]+, rt 0.37 min, LC-MS Method X12_S01.
R24 (212 g, 1151 mmol) in tetrahydrofuran (dry) (600 mL) is cooled to −78° C. Then n-butyllithium (2.5 M in hexanes, 552 mL, 1381 mmol) is added dropwise, keeping the temperature below −78° C. After 30 min R25 (324 g, 1209 mmol) in tetrahydrofurane (dry) (120 mL) is added dropwise. The reaction mixture is stirred at −78° C. for 1 h. The mixture is quenched with saturated NH4Cl solution and extracted three times with ethyl acetate. The organic layer is washed with brine, dried over Na2SO4 and evaporated in vacuo. The residue is purified by flash chromatography (heptane/ethyl acetate=80/20). Yield 60%.
To I-11.1 (104 g, 265 mmol) in acetonitrile (600 mL) aq. 0.2 M HCl (2788 mL, 558 mmol) is added.
The mixture is stirred at RT for 12 h. The mixture is extracted with diethylether and the pH of the aq. layer is adjusted to ˜8 with sat. NaHCO3-solution. Then it is extracted three times with ethyl acetate. The organic layer is washed with brine, dried over Na2SO4 and concentrated. Yield 80%.
I-11.2 (62.4 g, 211 mmol) is stirred in aq. 3 M HCl (3 mol/L, 1000 mL) at 60° C. for 16 h. The mixture is cooled down and the pH is adjusted to ˜7 with aq. 6 M NaOH. Then the reaction mixture is filtered, washed three times with water and dried in a vacuum oven at 40° C. for 12 h. Yield 74%.
To I-11.3 (151 g, 546 mmol) in 1,4-dioxane (2.2 L) is added aq. 2 M sodium carbonate (301 mL) and di-tertbutyl dicarbonate (138 g, 147 mL). The mixture is stirred for 4 h. Then water is added and the pH is adjusted to ˜4-5 with citric acid. The mixture is extracted three times with ethyl acetate. The organic layer is washed with brine, dried over Na2SO4 and concentrated. The residue is stirred in heptane for 15 min and the product is filtered off. Yield 87%.
To I-11.4 (181 g, 476 mmol) in dry DMF (1200 mL) N-methylmorpholine (72 g, 713 mmol) and TBTU (153 g, 476 mmol) are added and the reaction mixture is stirred for 30 min. Then the reaction mixture is cooled to 0° C. and aq. 35% ammonium chloride solution (47 mL, 856 mmol) is added and the mixture is stirred at room temperature for 12 h. Water is added and the formed product is filtered off and washed three times with water. The product is dried in a vacuum oven at 40° C. for 72 h. Yield 64%.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 38 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
The compound is commercially available or can be synthesized in analogy to Tararov et al, Tetrahedron Asymmetry 13 (2002), 25-28.
A solution of R5A (44.9 g, 0.44 mol), freshly distilled from a commercially available solution in toluene (at 50 mbar, 55° C.) in diethylether (300 ml) is cooled at −10° C., followed by dropwise addition of R5B (53 g, 440 mmol), keeping the temperature below 0° C. After complete addition, MgSO4*H2O (91 g, 660 mmol) is added, and the resulting mixture stirred at room temperature overnight. The mixture is filtrated, the solution phase concentrated in vacuo and the residue destilled under reduced pressure to yield R5C (47 g, m/z 206 [M+H]+, rt 1.29 min, LC-MS Method V003_003). The product is used without further purification.
A solution of R5C (47 g; 229 mmol) and R5D (30 g; 458 mmol) (freshly distilled from dicyclopentadien) in DMF (150 ml) and 120 μl water is cooled to 0° C., before TFA (18 ml; 234 mmol) is added dropwise. The mixture is stirred overnight at room temperature, then added to a solution of 40 g NaHCO3 in 1200 ml water and extracted with diethylether. The organic layer is separated, washed subsequently with aqueous NaHCO3 and water, dried over MgSO4, and concentrated in vacuo. The residue is worked up by column chromatography on silica (cyclohexane/ethyl acetate=9:1) to yield R5E (Yield 52% m/z 272 [M+H]+, rt 0.42 min, LC-MS Method X001_004)
To a solution of R5E (24.8 g, 91 mmol) in ethanol (250 ml), Raney-nickel is added (2.5 g) and reacted at 50 psi under a hydrogen atmosphere at room temperature. The catalyst is filtered of, the solution concentrated in vacuo and the residue worked up by chromatography on silica (cyclohexane/ethyl acetate 9:1). After evaporation of the organic solvent, the obtained product is redissolved in diethylether and triturated with solution of HCl in dioxane, concentrated in vacuo, redissolved in 200 ml ethanol and concentrated in vacuo to yield R5F: (Yield 78% m/z 274 [M+H]+, rt 0.42 min, LC-MS Method X001_004).
To a solution of R5F (22 g, 71 mmol) in ethanol (250 ml), 10% Pd/C is added (2.5 g) and reacted at 15 bar under a hydrogen atmosphere at room temperature. The catalyst is filtered of, the solution concentrated in vacuo. The residue is washed with diisopropylether to yield R5G. (Yield 98% m/z 170 [M+H]+, rt 0.48 min, LC-MS Method V001_007).
To R5G in a solution of triethylamin (24.6 ml), THF (150 ml) and water (2 ml), R5I (15.9 g; 73 mmol) is added and the resulting mixture stirred for 40 hours at room temperature, then concentrated in vacuo. Ethyl acetate is added to the residue, subsequently extracted with water, 1 N acidic acid and water, before the organic layer is dried over MgSO4 and concentrated in vacuo to yield R5I. (Yield 95% m/z 270 [M+H]+, rt 1.33 min, LC-MS Method V003_003).
A mixture of R5I (16.9 g; 63 mmol) in acetone (152 ml), water (50 ml) and lithium hydroxide (3 g, 126 mmol) is stirred overnight at room temperature. Water (100 ml) was added, the volume reduced in vacuo before cooling to 0° C. followed by the addition of 1N aqueous HCl to acidify to a pH of 2-3, immediately followed by extraction with ethyl acetate. The organic layer was washed with water, dried (MgSO4) and concentrated. To the residue, dichloromethane (100 ml) and cyclohexane (100 ml) was added, the volume reduced in vacuo by half and the mixture temperated at 15° C. The precipitate was filtered of, washed with cyclohexane to yield R5 (Yield 66%, m/z 242 [M+H]+).
To R1 (10.0 g, 27.7 mmol) in DCM (70 mL) TFA (25 mL, 162.0 mmol) is added and the reaction mixture is stirred for 12 h. Then the reaction mixture is concentrated, the residue is dissolved in DCM and diisopropylether is added. The product precipitates and is filtered by suction and washed with diisopropylether. Yield >95% m/z 261 [M+H]+, rt 0.67 min, LC-MS Method V018_S01.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 38.1 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
For R6.1 the reaction time is 2 h. After the reaction mixture is concentrated, the crude residue is freeze-dried and used without further purification for the next step.
1,1,3,3,-Tetramethylguanidin (0.44 mL, 3.51 mmol) in THF (5 mL) is cooled down to −70° C. Educt R22 (1.00 g, 3.36 mmol) is dissolved in 5 mL THF and is added. The mixture is stirred for 5 min before R15 (0.49 g, 3.36 mmol)—also dissolved in 5 mL THF—is added dropwise. The cooling is removed and the mixture warms up to room temperature. The reaction mixture is heated to 80° C. for 12 h. Because of remaining educt Tetramethylguanidin and R22 are added twice and the mixture is stirred at 80° C. for additional 4 h. The reaction mixture is concentrated. Ethyl acetate and water are added to the residue. 1 M sulfuric acid is added and the organic layer is separated, is dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. Yield 87%, m/z 318 [M+H]+, rt 0.97 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 39 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate:
To I-8.3 (925 mg, 2.91 mmol) in methanol (30 mL) Pd/C (10%, 130 mg) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred under hydrogen (3 bar) for 16 h. Then the mixture is filtered and the filtrate is concentrated. The residue is triturated with diethyl ether and the product is filtered by suction. Yield 88%, m/z 320 [M+H]+, rt 0.99 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 40 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate:
To I-8.4 (820 mg, 2.57 mmol) in methanol (15 mL) sodium hydroxide solution (2.5 mL, 1 mol/L) is added. The reaction mixture is heated to 40° C. for 2 h. The mixture is concentrated partially and 1 M HCl is added to neutralization. The precipitation is filtered with suction, is dissolved in methanol and concentrated quickly. Yield 65%, m/z 306 [M+H]+, rt 0.57 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 41 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate:
To I-8.5 (400 mg, 1.31 mmol) in DMF (5 mL) diisopropylethylamine (502 μL, 2.88 mmol) and TBTU (421 mg, 1.31 mmol) are added and the reaction mixture is stirred for 15 min. Then aq. 30% ammonia solution (545 μL, 9.61 mmol) is added and the mixture is stirred for additional 12 h. Water is added to the reaction mixture and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer is washed with brine and saturated NaHCO3 solution, is dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. Yield 55%, m/z 305 [M+H]+, rt 0.75 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 42 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate:
For I-8.6.2 N-methylmorpholine is used instead of diisopropylethylamine (in analogy to synthesis of R1)
To I-8.6 (130 mg, 0.43 mmol) in DCM (3 mL) TFA (358 μL, 0.47 mmol) is added and the reaction mixture is heated to 30° C. for 12 h. Then the reaction mixture is concentrated. Yield >95%.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 43 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate:
The pH of a mixture of R26 (1.85 g, 7.9 mmol) in methanol (100 mL) and water (10 mL) is adjusted to ˜5 with acetic acid. Then a 37% formalin solution (1.28 mL, 15.8 mmol) is added and the mixture is stirred for 15 min. Sodium cyanoborohydride (0.74 g, 11.8 mmol) is added and the reaction mixture is stirred for additional 12 h. The mixture is concentrated and ethyl acetate and aq. 1 M NaOH solution are added to the residue. The organic layer is washed with NaCl solution, dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. The residue is dissolved in diethyl ether and ethereal HCl is added dropwise. The resulting precipitate is filtered off. Yield 62% m/z 212/214 [M+H]+, rt 0.65 min, LC-MS Method V012_S01.
R33 (800 mg, 3.1 mmol) is dissolved in DCM, N-methyl-piperazine (313 mg, 3.1 mmol) is added and stirred for 12 h. After addition of 2 mL 1N HCl under stirring the phases are separated. The organic phase is dried over MgSO4 and after filtration evaporated in vacuo. Yield: 84% m/z 319 (M+H)+.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 44 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediate:
For R34.4 and R34.5 additional 2 eq. of DIPEA are added to the reaction mixture.
R35 (200 μL, 1.448 mmol) is dissolved in 10 mL methanol. Cyanamide (79.112 mg, 1.882 mmol), potassium tert-butoxide (194.9 mg, 1.737 mmol) and N-bromosuccinimide (386.282 mg, 2.171 mmol) are added and stirred for 1 h at room temperature. The product is purified by preparative HPLC (Waters 30×100 mm, 10 μm, sunfire RP18, acetonitrile/water/TFA). The fractions containing the product are combined and and lyophilized. Yield 87%, m/z 244 [M+H]+, rt 0.62 min, LC-MS Method Z018_S04.
In analogy the following reagent as shown in Table 45 is prepared:
R36 (335 mg, 1.378 mmol) is dissolved in 3 mL ethanol. Potassium carbonate (571.315 mg, 4.134 mmol) and 3-chloroperbenzoic acid (356.696 mg, 2.067 mmol) are added at 0° C., and the mixture is stirred for 2 h at room temperature. The solvent is evaporated in vacuo and the residue is dissolved in DMF. The product is purified by preparative HPLC (Waters 30×100 mm, 10 μm, sunfire RP18, acetonitrile/water/TFA). The fractions containing the product are combined and and lyophilized. Yield 71%, m/z 260 [M+H]+, rt 0.68 min, LC-MS Method Z018_S04.
In analogy the following reagent as shown in Table 46 is prepared:
To potassium tert.-butylate (7.4 g, 65.6 mmol) in anhydrous THF (300 mL) is added crown ether 18-6 (12.2 g, 46.0 mmol). The mixture is cooled down to 0° C. and R28 (5.0 g, 32.9 mmol) is added and stirred for 15 min at room temperature. Then acetic acid methyl ester (5.2 mL 65.7 mmol) is added and the reaction mixture is stirred for additional 1 h. The mixture is concentrated and the residue is purified via flash chromatography (cyclohexane/ethyl acetate=95:5). Yield 79%, m/z 195 [M+H]+, rt 0.66 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
To I-13.1 (5.1 g, 26.1 mmol) 1 M hydrazine solution in THF (78.2 mL, 78.2 mmol) is added and the reaction mixture is heated to 80° C. for 12 h. The reaction mixture is concentrated and the residue is purified via flash chromatography (cyclohexane/ethyl acetate=70:30). Yield 90%, m/z 191 [M+H]+, rt 1.01 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
I-13.2 (1.00 g, 5.3 mmol) and acetic acid anhydride (5.00 mL, 53.0 mmol) are stirred for 12 h. Water and methanol are added to the reaction mixture, the precipitate is filtered by suction and dried in vacuo. Yield 87%, m/z 233 [M+H]+, rt 1.31 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
To I-13.3 (0.95 g, 4.1 mmol) in DCM (25 mL) is added N-bromo succinimide (0.80 g, 4.5 mmol) and 2,2′-azobis(isobutyronitrile) (50 mg). The reaction mixture is refluxed for 12 h under radiation with an Hg lamp. The mixture is concentrated and the residue is purified via flash chromatography (cyclohexane/DCM=75:25). Yield 39%, m/z 311 [M+H]+, rt 1.43 min, LC-MS Method V018_S01.
R31 (500 mg, 2.2 mmol) in DMF (3 mL) is cooled down to 0° C. Under argon atmosphere NaH (60%, 121 mg, 3.0 mmol) is added and stirred for 20 min. Then methyl iodide (0.275 mL, 4.4 mmol) is added and the mixture is stirred for additional 1 h at 0° C. Ice water is added to the reaction mixture and the precipitate is filtered by suction and dried at 50° C. in the vacuum oven for 12 h. Yield 73%, m/z 240/242 [M+H]+, rt 0.89 min, LC-MS Method V012_S01.
3-Methyl-diphenylamine R38 (1.0 g, 5.5 mmol), K2CO3 (75 mg, 0.55 mmol) and palladium acetate (37 mg, 0.16 mmol) in 2,2-dimethyl-1-propanol (5 mL) is is stirred at 110° C. for 14 h. Water is added to the reaction mixture and extracted with dichloromethane. The combined organic layer is concentrated in vacuo, residue triturated with methanol/dichloromethane and dried in vacuo and directly taken to the next step. Yield 29%, m/z 182 [M+H]+, rt 0.67 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
I-15.1 (285 mg, 1.6 mmol), di-tert.-butyl dicarbonate (412 mg, 1.9 mmol) and DMAP (50 mg, 0.41 mmol) in dichloromethane (10 ml) are stirred at room temperature for 16 hours. The reaction mixture extracted with water, the organic layer is separated and concentrated in vacuo and directly taken to the next step. Yield 86%, m/z 282 [M+H]+, rt 0.89 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
I-15.2 (380 mg, 1.4 mmol), N-bromosuccinimide (289 mg, 1.6 mmol), AIBN (20 mg, 0.12 mmol) in tetrachloromethane (5 mL) is heated to reflux over 16 h. Water and dichloromethane are added to the reaction mixture, the organic layer separated and concentrated. The residue is triturated with methanol and used directly in the next step. Yield 41%, m/z 360 [M+H]+, rt 0.67 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
9H-Carbazole-3-carboxylic acid R39 (500 mg, 2.4 mmol), in methanol (20 mL) is cooled to 0° C. Thionylchloride (206 ml, 2.8 mmol) is added dropwise to the stirred mixture at this temperature. The mixture is then stirred at room temperature for 16 hours. The formed precipitate is filtered and dried in vacuo and directly taken to the next step. Yield 53%, m/z 226 [M+H]+, rt 0.59 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
I-16.1 (280 mg, 1.2 mmol), di-tert.-butyl dicarbonate (326 mg, 1.5 mmol) and DMAP (50 mg, 0.41 mmol) in dichloromethane (10 ml) are stirred at room temperature for 16 hours. The reaction mixture extracted with water, the organic layer is separated and concentrated in vacuo and directly taken to the next step. Yield 99%, m/z 326 [M+H]+, rt 0.84 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
I-16.2 (400 mg, 1.2 mmol) and boronhydride-tetrahydrofuran addukt (1.2 ml 1M in THF, 1.2 mmol) are dissolved in THF (5 ml). LiBH4 is repeatedly added in small portions at 50° C., until HPLC shows completion of reaction. Water and dichloromethane are added to the reaction mixture, the organic layer separated, concentrated and purified via HPLC. Yield 40%, m/z 280 [M−H2O+H]+, rt 0.70 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
I-16.3 (145 mg, 0.5 mmol) and DIPEA (171 μl, 1.0 mmol) are dissoleced in dichloromethane (10 ml) and cooled to −10° C. Methanesulfonylchloride (46 μl, 0.6 mmol) in dichloromethane (1 ml) is added dropwise. After complete addition, the mixture is stirred for 16 h at room temperature. Water is added to the reaction mixture, the organic layer separated, concentrated in vacuo to yield R13.2, which is directly taken to the next step. Yield 73%, rt 0.87 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
2-Acetyl-9,10-dihydro-phenanthren R40 (1.0 g, 4.5 mmol) is added to solution of bromine (924.7 μl, 18 mmol) and KOH (3.3 g, 58.5 mmol) in water (20 ml) at 0° C. After addition is completed, the reaction mixture is heated to 55° C. for 16 hours. The mixture is cooled to r.t., extracted with dichloromethane. The aqueous phase is separated, acidified with 1 M HCl aq and the precipitating product is filtered off and dried in vacuo at 50° C. Yield 92%, m/z 225 [M+H]+, rt 0.62 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
I-17.1 (930 mg, 4.2 mmol) is dissolved in THF (10 ml), CDI (874 mg, 5.4 mmol) is added in small portions and the mixture is stirred for 1 h at 50° C. The mixture is added slowly to sodium borohydride (470 mg, 12.4 mmol) in ice water, so that the temperature remains below 10° C. The mixture is stirred for 16 hours at r.t. and extracted with dichloromethane/water. The organic layer is separated and concentrated in vacuo, the remaining crude product purified via HPLC. Yield 53%, m/z 210 [M]+, 193 [M−H2O]+, rt 0.61 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
I-17.2 (460 mg, 2.2 mmol), DIPEA (766 μl, 4.4 mmol) are dissoleced in dichloromethane (10 ml) and cooled to −10° C. Methanesulfonylchloride (207 μl, 2.6 mmol) in dichloromethane (1 ml) is added dropwise. After complete addition, the mixture is stirred for 16 h at room temperature. Water is added to the reaction mixture, the organic layer separated, concentrated in vacuo and the remaining crude product purified via HPLC. Yield 67%, m/z 228 [M]+, rt 0.79 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
Dicyclopenta-1,3-diene is cracked and distilled at 42° C. and 1013 mbar to give cyclopenta-1,3-diene.
Ethyl 2-oxoacetate is also freshly distilled from a commercially available solution in toluene. Assumed concentration is 50%.
To N-boc-imino-(triphenyl)phosphorane (11.32 g, 30.00 mmol) in toluene (100 mL) is added ethyl 2-oxoacetate (15 mL, 60.00 mmol) and cyclopenta-1,3-diene (5 mL, 60.00 mmol) and stirred overnight at r.t. The reaction mixture is concentrated and the crude residue is purified over silica gel (cyclohexane/ethyl acetate 7:3). Yield 16%
R29.2. can be obtained through preparative chiral chromatography from this mixture of R29.1 and R29.2 (table 46.1) using method Chiral SFC G.
To R29.2 (5.00 g, 18.7 mmol) in diethylether (100 mL) is added palladium(II) acetate (0.42 g, 1.87 mmol). Under stirring diazomethane solution in diethylether (62 mmol) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred for 12 h. To destroy remaining diazomethane, silica gel and 3 mL acetic acid are added. Then the mixture is stirred for additional 1 h and filtrated. The solution is concentrated and extracted with DCM, water and brine. Yield 98%, m/z 226 [M+H−tButyl]+, rt 0.64 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
To I-14.1 (5.40 g, 19.2 mmol) in dioxane (60 mL) is added aq. 4 M NaOH (20 mL, 80 mmol). The reaction mixture is heated to 50° C. for 3 h. The mixture is extracted two times with DCM, then the water layer neutralized with 2 M HCl and extracted three times with DCM. The combined organic layers are dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. The residue is dissolved in diethylether and evaporated, the product crystallizes. Yield 88%, m/z 198 [M+H−tButyl]+, rt 0.48 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
To R27 (25.0 g, 111 mmol) in acetonitrile (750 mL) is added MeI (15 mL, 241 mmol) and K2CO3 (60.0 g, 434 mmol) and the reaction mixture is stirred at 60° C. for 2 h. The reaction mixture is filtered and concentrated. Water and ethyl acetate are added to the residue. The organic layer is extracted twice with water, dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. Yield 56%, m/z 240/242 [M+H]+, rt 0.48 min, LC-MS Method X001_004.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 47 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
For I-12.1.1, I-12.1.2, I-12.1.3, I-12.1.5, I-12.1.7 and I-12.1.8 sodium hydride and DMF is used instead of potassium cabonate and ACN.
For I-12.1.3, I-12.1.7 and I-12.1.8 the reaction temperature is r.t.
For I-12.1.4 DMF is used.
For I-12.1.6 the reaction conditions differ: 1,1-Difluoro-2-trifluoromethanesulfonyl-ethane is used as alkylation reagent in triethylamin as solvent at r.t.
I-12.1 (15.0 g, 63 mmol) and hydrazine hydrate (30 mL, 618 mmol) are heated to 125° C. for 72 h.
To the cool reaction mixture DCM is added and extracted with water and 1 M HCL. The organic layer is dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. The crystallized residue is dissolved in DCM, methanol is added and the DCM is removed in vacuo. The crystallized product is filtered by sunction and washed with cold methanol. Yield 63%, m/z 226/228 [M+H]+, rt 1.16 min, LC-MS Method V001_003.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 48 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
To I-12.2 (32.0 g, 142 mmol) in anhydrous dioxane (400 mL) is added R3 (54.4 g, 241 mmol) and potassium acetate (41.6 g, 424 mmol). The mixture is purged with Argon, [1, 1′-Bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene]dichloropalladium(II) as a complex with dichloromethane (11.2 g, 14 mmol) is added and the mixture is heated to 90° C. for 2 h. The reaction mixture is diluted with ethyl acetate and water, the organic layer is washed with water, dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. The residue is purified via flash chromatography (cyclohexane/EA=70:30). Yield 72%, m/z 274 [M+H]+, rt 0.67 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 49 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
2 g (10.3 mmol) 4-(4,4,5,5-Tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolan-2-yl)-1H-pyrazole and 2.9 mL (20.6 mmol) 4-(iodomethyl)-tetrahydro-2H-pyran are dissolved in 200 mL DMF and 4.274 g (30.9 mmol) K2CO3 are added. The mixture is shaken at 80° C. for 5 h. After cooling to r.t. the mixture is filtered, the filtrate is concentrated in vacuo to approximately 60 mL. The product is separated using HPLC-MS (Gilson, mass flow 120 ml/min, 10 μm, 200 g Sunfire RP18, ACN/water/TFA). The product fractions are combined and freeze-dried to yield 115 mg product (3.8%) R7.6.
4-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolan-2-yl)aniline (1 g, 4.56 mmol) and pyridine (10 mL) are cooled down with an ice bath. Methanesulfonyl chloride (0.933 mL, 12.01 mmol) is dissolved in dichlormethane (10 mL) and added slowly dropwise. The reaction mixture is allowed to come to room temperature and concentrated. The residue is diluted with dichlormethane and water. The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The crude product is used without further purification. Yield: >95%
Under nitrogen atmosphere to sodium hydride (50%) (0.218 g, 4.54 mmol) and DMF (3 mL) is added 4-(4,4,5,5-Tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolan-2-yl)-1H-pyrazole (0.5 g, 2.5 mmol) and stirred for 30 min at r.t. N-(2-chloroethyl)acetamide (0.775 mL, 7.52 mmol) is added and stirred at 90° C. overnight. Due to no reaction N-(2-chloroethyl)acetamide (0.26 mL) and copper(I)iodide (25 mg, 0.13 mmol) are added and stirred at 90° C. for 24 h. The reaction mixture is diluted with methanol, filtered through a thiol cartridge and concentrated. The crude product is used without further purification. Yield: 100%
All other boronic acid derivatives R9 and R16 and alkynes R10 are purchased or prepared by literature known procedures.
To R5 (500 mg, 2.07 mmol) in DMF (5 mL) are added HATU (866.72 mg, 2.28 mmol) and DIPEA (1.43 mL, 8.29 mmol) and stirred at r.t. for 15 min. To the reaction mixture is added methyl 2-amino-3-hydroxy-propanoate hydrochloride (354.64 mg, 2.28 mmol) and stirred at r.t. for 4 h. The reaction mixture is diluted with ACN and water and purified by reversed phase HPLC.
Yield 79%, m/z 343 [M+H]+, rt 0.44 min, LC-MS Method X011_S03.
I-22.1 (100 mg, 0.29 mmol) is dissolved in dichlormethane (2 mL) and cooled down to 0° C. 4-dimethylamino pyridine (1.78 mg, 0.015 mmol), TEA (65.13 μL, 0.47 mmol) and methansulfonyl chloride (29.59 μL, 0.38 mmol) are added and stirred at r.t. for 3 h. The reaction mixture is diluted with sodium carbonate solution. The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The crude residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC.
Yield 27%, m/z 324 [M+H]+, rt 0.63 min, LC-MS Method X011_S03.
To 1-fluoro-2-methoxy-benzene (25 mL, 222.79 mmol) and 1,4-dimethylpiperidin-4-ol (7 g, 54.18 mmol) is added trifluoromethanesulfonic acid (50 mL, 565.04 mmol) under ice bath cooling. The reaction mixture is stirred at r.t. overnight, poured into iced water and extracted with PE. To the aqueous phase is added solid sodium carbonate and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer is dried and concentrated. The crude product is triturated with diisopropylether and the precipitate is filtered off. Yield 82%, m/z 238 [M+H]+, rt 0.39 min, LC-MS Method X018_S02.
To I-23.1 (16.9 g, 43.63 mmol) in dichlormethane (150 mL) is added boron tribromide 1M in dichlormethane (44 mL, 44 mmol) and stirred at r.t. overnight. The reaction mixture is diluted with dichlormethane and 10% K2CO3-solution. The resulting precipitate is filtered off. The aq. layer is repeatedly extracted with dichlormethane, the precipitate formed upon standing at rt is filtered off and washed with dichlormethane. The dichloromethane phase is concentrated and purified by reversed HPLC and freeze dried. The isolated precipitates and the corresponding HPLC fractions are combined to yield the desired product.
Yield 18%, m/z 224 [M+H]+, rt 0.61 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
To I-23.2 (1.4 g, 6.27 mmol) in anhydrous dichlormethane (40 mL) triethylamine (1.8 mL, 12.985 mmol) is added and cooled down to −20° C. Trifluoromethanesulfonic acid anhydride (1.1 mL, 6.538 mmol) is added dropwise and stirred at −10° C. for 30 min. The reaction mixture is diluted with dichlormethane, washed with K2CO3-solution and brine. The organic layer is dried and concentrated. The crude product is used for the next step without further purification. Yield 98%, m/z 356 [M+H]+, rt 1.30 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
2-benzyloxycarbonylamino-acrylicacidmethylester (2.274 g, 9.67 mmol), bis(dibenzylideneacetone) palladium (0) (295 mg, 0.32 mmol), (2-biphenylyl)di-tert-butylphosphine (345 mg, 1.156 mmol) and lithium chloride (710 mg, 16.73 mmol) are purged with argon. I-23.3 (2.29 g, 6.44 mmol) dissolved in DMF (15 mL) and triethylamine are added and stirred at 80° C. overnight.
The reaction mixture is concentrated, then diluted with dichlormethane and washed with 5% K2CO3-solution. The organic layer is dried and concentrated. The crude product is purified by reversed phase HPLC.
Yield 33%, m/z 441 [M+H]+, rt 1.23 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 50 is synthesized in an analogous manner from the appropriate intermediate R41 and R91:
R22 (22.58 g, 75.97 mmol) in Me-THF (50 mL) is cooled down to −10° C., 1,1,3,3-tetramethylguanidine (9.55 mL, 75.97 mmol) is added and stirred for 30 min. 4-benzyloxy-2-fluoro-benzaldehyde (15.9 g, 69.06 mmol) dissolved in 100 mL Me-THF is added dropwise and stirred for 3 h at −10° C. to 0° C. The cooling is removed and the mixture warms up to room temperature.
The reaction mixture is diluted with 300 mL Me-THF and extracted with water. The organic layer is treated with activated carbon, dried over MgSO4 and concentrated.
The crude product is recrystallized with cyclohexane and filtered off.
Yield 97%, m/z 402 [M+H]+, rt 0.80 min, LC-MS Method X018_S01.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 50.1 is synthesized in an analogous manner from the appropriate intermediates:
I-24.1 (2.8 g, 6.98 mmol) and (+)-1,2-bis((2s,5s)-2,5-diethylphospholano)benzene(cyclooctadiene)rhodium(I) trifluoromethanesulfonate (250 mg, 0.346 mmol) in methanol (60 mL) are stirred under hydrogen (50 psi) at r.t. for 2 h. Then the mixture is filtered and the filtrate is concentrated. Yield 100%, m/z 404 [M+H]+, rt 1.40 min, LC-MS Method V001_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 51 are synthesized in an analogous manner from the appropriate intermediates:
I-24.2 (2.95 g, 6.95 mmol) is dissolved in anhydrous methanol (15 mL). Calcium chloride (812 mg, 7.32 mmol) and ammonia in methanol 7N (15 mL, 10.5 mmol) is added and stirred at r.t. overnight. The reaction mixture is diluted with water (45 mL) and the precipitate is filtered off and washed with water.
Yield 90%, m/z 389 [M+H]+, rt 0.65 min, LC-MS Method X011_S03.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 52 is synthesized an analogous manner from the appropriate intermediates:
Intermediate I-24.3.1 is purified by reversed phase HPLC.
To I-24.3 (2.42 g, 6.23 mmol) in dichlormethane (20 mL) is added HCl in dioxane 4 mol/L (7.79 mL, 31.15 mmol) and stirred at r.t. for 3 h. The reaction mixture is diluted with TBME and the precipitate is filtered off and washed with TBME.
Yield 95%, m/z 289 [M+H]+, rt 0.50 min, LC-MS Method X011_S03.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 52.1 is synthesized in an analogous manner from the appropriate intermediates:
I-24.3.1 (625 mg, 1.46 mmol) and Pd/C 10% (150 mg) in methanol (60 mL) is stirred under hydrogen (50 psi) at r.t. for 3.5 h. The reaction mixture is filtered and concentrated.
Yield 99%, m/z 294 [M+H]+, rt 0.80 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The reaction is carried out under argon atmosphere.
Diisopropylamine (5.289 mL, 38 mmol) in anhydrous THF (25 mL) is cooled down to −50° C. N-butyllithium in hexane 2.5M (13.786 mL, 34.47 mmol) is added dropwise and stirred for 45 min, then the solution is allowed to warm up to 0° C. and cooled down to −50° C. again. 1-Ethyl-4-piperidone (4 g, 31.45 mmol) dissolved in 30 ml, THF is added dropwise and stirred for 30 min. R18 (11.797 g, 33.02 mmol) dissolved in 30 ml, THF is added dropwise. The cooling is removed and the reaction mixture stirred for 2 h.
The reaction mixture is diluted with 50 ml, toluene. The organic layer is washed with 1N sodium hydroxide, half saturated brine, dried and concentrated. The residue is purified over silica gel.
Yield 15%, m/z 260 [M+H]+, rt 0.30 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 53 are synthesized in an analogous manner from the appropriate intermediates:
For Intermediate R51.2, R51.3, R51.4 and R51.6 the reaction conditions differ: lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide is used and the reaction is carried out at −78° C. The crude product is used for the next step without further purification.
Intermediate R51.4 is purified over silica gel.
For Intermediate R51.5 the reaction conditions differ: lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide is used and the reaction is carried out at −50° C. The crude product is is purified over silica gel.
Ethyl pent-2-ynoate (300 μL, 2 mmol), isobutylhydrazine hydrate (240 μL, 2 mmol), methanol (1 mL) and water (1 mL) are stirred together in the microwave at 140° C. for 15 min.
The crude product is used for the next step without further purification.
Intermediate I-25.1 (380 mg, 2 mmol) is dissolved in anhydrous dichlormethane (10 mL), DIPEA (1.2 mL, 6.94 mmol) is added and cooled down to 0° C. Trifluoromethylsulfonyl trifluoromethanesulfonate
(375 μL, 2.26 mmol) dissolved in dichlormethane is added dropwise and stirred for 45 min.
Another trifluoromethylsulfonyl trifluoromethanesulfonate (188 μL, 1.13 mmol) is added and stirred for 30 min. The reaction mixture is extracted with NaHCO3-solution (5%). The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The residue is purified over silica gel.
Yield 21%, m/z 301 [M+H]+, rt 0.86 min, LC-MS Method X018_S02.
3-bromo-5-methylsulfanyl-phenol (5 g, 22.82 mmol) is dissolved in dichlormethane (100 mL) and cooled down to 0° C. 3-chloroperbenzoic acid (10.23 g, 45.64 mmol) is added and stirred at r.t. overnight. The reaction mixture is diluted with dichlormethane and water. The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The crude product is purified by reversed phase HPLC and freeze dried.
Yield 55%, m/z 251/253 [M+H]+, rt 0.47 min, LC-MS Method X018_S01.
To I-26.1 (150 mg, 0.597 mmol) and potassium carbonate (206.41 mg, 1.49 mmol) in DMF is added 1,1,1-trifluoro-2-iodo-ethane (147.196 μL, 1.493 mmol) and stirred over 3 days at 85° C. The reaction mixture is diluted with water, the precipitate is filtered off, washed with water and dried. Yield 52%, m/z 350/352 [M+H]+, rt 1.16 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 54 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
The two intermediates in the table above are purified by reversed phase HPLC.
To 4-bromo-2-nitro-aniline (10 g, 46.08 mmol) in DMF (200 mL) are added potassium carbonate (15 g, 108.53 mmol) and portionwise methylamine hydrochloride (3.11 g, 46.08 mmol) and stirred overnight at r.t . . . The reaction mixture is filtered and concentrated. The crude product is triturated with DIPE, filtered off and dried. Yield 86%
To I-36.1 (5.27 g, 22.81 mmol) in ethyl acetate is added platinum on carbon (550 mg) and stirred under hydrogen (5 bar) at r.t. for 4 h. The reaction mixture is filtered through a pad of celite and concentrated. The crude product is used without further purification for the next step
Yield 96%
4-bromo-1-n-methylbenzene-1,2-diamine (4.42 g, 21.98 mmol), N,N′-carbonyl-di-(1,2,3-triazole (4.178 g, 24.18 mmol), and TEA (9.184 mL, 65.95 mmol) in THF (70 mL) are stirred at r.t. for 30 min, then heated under reflux overnight. The reaction mixture is concentrated, triturated with water, filtered off and dried. The residue is triturated again with DIPE and filtered off.
Yield 88%
I-27.1 (4.41 g, 19.42 mmol) and phosphoroxybromide (27.84 g, 97.11 mmol) are stirred at 100° C. for 3 h. The reaction mixture is diluted with iced water. The precipitate is filtered off and triturated with DIPE.
Yield 89%
I-27.2 (200 mg, 0.69 mmol) and methylamine in methanol 2 mol/L (2 mL, 4 mmol) are stirred at 80° C. for 16 h. The reaction mixture is purified by reversed phase HPLC.
Yield 63%, m/z 240/242 [M+H]+, rt 0.48 min, LC-MS Method X011_S03.
To 2-(tert-butoxycarbonylamino)acetic acid (1.5 g, 8.56 mmol) and HATU (3.58 g, 9.42 mmol) in DMF (15 mL) is added DIPEA (5.89 mL, 34.25 mmol) and stirred for 15 min. Methyl (2R,4R)-4-methoxypyrrolidine-2-carboxylate hydrochloride (1.675 g, 8.56 mmol) is added and stirred at r.t. overnight. The reaction mixture is diluted with dichlormethan and NaHCO3-solution. The organic layer is separated and washed with brine, dried and concentrated. The crude residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC.
Yield 74%, m/z 317 [M+H]+, rt 0.47 min, LC-MS Method X018_S01.
I-28.1 (2 g, 6.32 mmol), hydrochloric acid in dioxane 4 mol/L (10 mL, 40 mmol) and dioxane (30 mL) are stirred at r.t. overnight. The reaction mixture is directly used for the next step.
To the reaction mixture from the previous step is added TEA till a pH value of 8 is reached. The precipitate is filtered off and the mother liquor is concentrated to isolate the desired product.
Yield 97%, m/z 185 [M+H]+, rt 0.18 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
To lithiumaluminium hydride 1 mol/L in THF (12.215 mL, 12.215 mmol) in THF (8 mL) is added a solution of I-28.3 (900 mg, 4.886 mmol) in THF (4 mL) dropwise and stirred at r.t. for 1.5 h. Under cooling the reaction mixture is poured into aq. sodium hydroxide (1 mol/L) and diluted with THF (30 ml). The precipitate is filtered off and the mother liquor is concentrated. The residue is diluted with methanol and stirred a few minutes at 50° C. The precipitate is filtered off and the mother liquor is concentrated to give the crude product which is purified over amino phase silica gel.
Yield 36%
5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-2H-2,6-naphthyridin-1-one hydrochloride (250 mg, 1.339 mmol), platinum oxide (100 mg) and glacial acetic acid (10 mL) are stirred under hydrogen (5 bar) at r.t. for 24 h.
The reaction mixture is filtered off and concentrated. The crude product is purified over amino phase silica gel.
Yield 71%.
1-isopropyl-2-methylsulfanyl-benzene (400 mg, 2.41 mmol) is dissolved in dichlormethane (4 mL) and cooled down to 0° C. Bromine (123.21 μL, 2.41 mmol) is added and stirred at r.t. for 3 days.
The reaction mixture is concentrated and purified by reversed phase HPLC.
Yield 53%, m/z 261/263 [M+H]+, rt 1.06 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
1-Bromo-3-iodo-benzene (250 μL, 1.96 mmol), (methylsulfonimidoyl) methane (219.188 mg, 2.353 mmol), cesium carbonate (894.466 mg, 2.745 mmol) and dioxane (12 mL) are purged with argon. (5-diphenylphosphanyl-9,9-dimethyl-xanthen-4-yl)-diphenyl-phosphane (85.098, 0.147 mmol) and tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium(0) (44.89 mg, 0.049 mmol) are added, purged again with argon and stirred at 105° C. for 3.
The reaction mixture is filtered through a pad of celite. The filtrate is concentrated and purified by reversed phase HPLC.
Yield 94%, m/z 249 [M+H]+, rt 0.74 min, LC-MS Method Z018_S04.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 55 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
To 2-(4-amino-3-bromo-phenyl)acetic acid (5 g, 21.73 mmol) in methanol (50 mL) and dichlormethane (100 mL) is added at −5° C. trimethylsilyldiazomethane in diethylether 2 mol/L (31.51 mL, 63.03 mmol) dropwise over a period of 30 min. The reaction mixture is allowed to warm up to r.t. and concentrated. The crude product is used without further purification.
Yield 95%, m/z 244/246 [M+H]+, rt 0.48 min, LC-MS Method X011_S03.
4-amino-3-bromophenylacetic acid methyl ester (22 g, 81.12 mmol), di-t-butyl-dicarbonate (20.13 g, 92.22 mmol), 4-dimethylaminopyridine (991.02 mg, 8.11 mmol) and dichlormethane (300 mL) are stirred together at r.t. overnight. The reaction mixture is extracted with KHSO4-solution (10%), NaHCO3-solution and brine. The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The residue is purified over silica gel.
Yield 8%, m/z 344/346 [M+H]+, rt 1.34 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
To I-29.1 (4 g, 11.62 mmol) in dioxane (50 mL) is added a solution of lithium hydroxide (400 mg, 13.95 mmol) in water (5 mL) and stirred at r.t. overnight. The precipitate is filtered by sunction and dried.
Yield 91%, m/z 274/276 [M+H-isobutene]+, rt 0.29 min, LC-MS Method X011_S03.
To I-29.2 (150 mg, 0.45 mmol) in DMF (2 mL) is added TBTU (175.04 mg, 0.55 mmol) and after 7 min methylamine 2 mol/L in THF (0.9 ml, 1.82 mmol) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred at r.t. overnight and purified by reversed phase HPLC.
Yield 35%, m/z n.d. [M+H]+, rt 0.55 min, LC-MS Method X011_S03.
To I-29.3 (97 mg, 0.28 mmol) in dichlormethane (2 mL) is added trifluoracetic acid (0.5 mL) and stirred at r.t. for 1 h. The reaction mixture is concentrated.
Yield 99%, m/z 243/245 [M+H]+, rt 0.26 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
2-fluoro-6-iodo-4-(methoxycarbonyl)aniline (30 g, 0.1 mol), ethanol (300 mL) and NaOH 20% (30 mL) are stirred together under reflux for 2 h.. The reaction mixture is diluted with water and acidified with KHSO4-solution (1 mol/L). The precipitate is filtered off and recristallized with ethanol.
Yield 86%
To I-30.1 (26 g, 0.092 mol) in DMF (200 mL) is added 1,1′-carbonyldiimidazole (17.8 g, 0.11 mol) and ammonium carbonate (48 g, 0.5 mol) and stirred at 50° C. for 30 min. The reaction mixture is concentrated and the residue is diluted with water. The precipitate is filtered off and recristallized with ethanol.
Yield 83%
To R74 (2 g, 7.14 mmol) in dichlormethane (50 mL) is added R2 (3.4 g, 14.28 mmol) and stirred at r.t. overnight. The reaction mixture is extracted with water. The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The crude residue is filtered through a pad of silica gel (eluent (ethyl acetate/cyclohexane 3:7).
Yield 53%, m/z 263 [M+H]+, rt 0.47 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
To tert-butyl 3,8-diazabicyclo[3.2.1]octane-8-carboxylate hydrochloride (300 mg, 1.21 mmol) in THF (5 mL) is added tetrahydrofuran-3-one (114.21 mg, 1.33 mmol) and sodium triacetoxyborhydride (349.78 mg, 1.57 mmol) and stirred at r.t. for 0.5 h.
Sodium acetate (148.40 mg, 1.81 mmol) is added and stirred at r.t. overnight.
The reaction mixture is diluted with aq. sodium hydrogen carbonate solution and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The crude residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC.
Yield 61%, m/z 283 [M+H]+, rt 0.61 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 56 are synthesized in an analogous manner from the appropriate intermediates:
For I-31.1.1 sodium cyanoborhydride and methanol is used instead of sodium triacetoxyborhydride and THF.
I-31.1 (206 mg, 0.73 mmol) and hydrochloric acid in ether 1 mol/L (5 mL) is stirred at r.t. for 3.
The reaction mixture is concentrated, diluted in dichlormethan/methanol 7/3 and filtered over amino phase silica gel.
Yield 99%, m/z 183 [M+H]+, rt 0.28 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
The following intermediates as shown in Table 56.1 are synthesized in an analogous manner from the appropriate intermediates:
For R77.1 p-toluenesulfonic acid monohydrate is used for the deprotection.
To 1,3-dihydro-1-(piperidin-4-yl)-(2H)-indol-2-one (200 mg, 0.93 mmol) in dichlormethane (5 mL) are added TEA (0.129 mL, 0.93 mmol) and di-t-butyl-dicarbonate (201.82 mg, 0.93 mmol). The reaction mixture is stirred for 10 min, diluted with water and sodium hydrogencarbonate solution and extracted with dichlormethane. The organic layer is dried and concentrated.
Yield >95%, m/z 261 [M+H-tert.butyl]+, rt 1.055 min, LC-MS Method Z020_S01.
Tert-butyl 4-(2-oxoindolin-1-yl)piperidine-1-carboxylate (100 mg, 0.32 mmol) in ACN is cooled down to −10° C., N-bromosuccinimide (56.47 mg, 0.32 mmol) is added and stirred at −10° C. for 2 h.
The reaction mixture is diluted with dichlormethane and water. The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The crude product is used for the next step without further purification.
Yield 99%, m/z 395 [M+H]+, rt 1.126 min, LC-MS Method Z020_S01.
To 2-amino-3-iodo-benzoic acid (200 mg, 0.76 mmol) in DMF (1 mL) TBTU (244.15 mg, 0.76 mmol) and DIPEA (245.69 μL, 1.52 mmol) are added and stirred at r.t. for 7 min.
Cyclopropylamine (52.69 μL, 0.76 mmol) is added and stirred at r.t. overnight. The reaction mixture is diluted with water and the precipitate is filtered off and dried.
Yield 89%, m/z 303 [M+H]+, rt 0.49 min, LC-MS Method X012_S01.
To sodium hydride 60% (1.536 g, 38.4 mmol) in DMSO (30 mL) under nitrogen atmosphere is added di-tert.butylmalonate (8.61 mL, 38.4 mmol) dropwise. The reaction mixture is stirred at 100° C. for 1 h, cooled down to 10° C. and a solution of 2,5-dibromonitrobenzene (4.93 g, 17.55 mmol) in DMSO (25 mL) is added dropwise. After the addition the reaction mixture is stirred at 100° C. for 1 h again.
The reaction mixture is poured into ammoniumchloride solution and the pH is adjusted with sodium hydrogensulfate to pH 7. Water and a mixture of ethylycetate/cyclohexane 1/1 is added.
The aq. layer is extracted with this mixture. The organic layer is separated, washed with brine, dried and concentrated. The crude product is used for the next step without further purification.
Yield 45%, m/z 414/416 [M+H]+, rt 1.215 min, LC-MS Method Z011_S03.
To I-32.1 (1 g, 2.4 mmol) in ethanol is added platinum on carbon (50 mg) and stirred under hydrogen (50 psi) at r.t. for 67 h. The reaction mixture is filtered and concentrated. The crude residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC.
Yield 34%, m/z 274/276 [M+H]+, rt 1.156 min, LC-MS Method Z011_S03.
To I-32.2 (316.66 mg, 0.81 mmol) in dichlormethane (2 mL) and glacial acetic acid (73.88 mL, 1.22 mmol) are added Boc-4-piperidone (210.41 mg, 1.06 mmol), titanium (IV)isopropoxide (346.17 mg, 1.22 mmol) and sodium triacetoxyborhydride (258.14 mg, 1.22 mmol) and stirred at 50° C. for 3 h and at r.t. over 3 days. The reaction mixture is diluted with dichlormethane and water. The organic layer is separated and concentrated. The crude product is purified by reversed phase HPLC.
Yield 27%, m/z 569/571 [M+H]+, rt 1.049 min, LC-MS Method Z011_U03.
To I-32.3 (125.3 mg, 0.2 mmol) in toluene (1 mL) is added 4-ethyl-benzenesulfonic acid (163.9 mg, 0.9 mmol) and stirred at 140° C. by microwave irradiation. The reaction mixture is concentrated and diluted with sodium hydroxide 1 mol/L and dichlormethane and concentrated again. The crude product is used without further purification for the next step.
Yield 92%, m/z 295/7 [M+H]+, rt 0.867 min, LC-MS Method Z011_S03.
To I-32.4 (60 mg, 0.20 mmol) in methanol (1 mL) are added formaldehyde in water (37%) (75.67 μL, 1.02 mmol) and glacial acetic acid (17.44 μL, 0.31 mmol), stirred at r.t. for 75 min, afterwards sodium triacetoxyborhydride (107.70 mg, 0.51 mmol) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred at r.t. overnight.
The reaction mixture is diluted with sodium hydroxide 1 mol/L and dichlormethane. The organic layer is separated, washed with brine, dried and concentrated. The crude product is used for the next step without further purification.
Yield 52%, m/z 309/311 [M+H]+, rt 0.912 min, LC-MS Method Z011_S03.
To 4-bromobenzene-1,2-diamine (0.5 g, 3 mmol) in dichlormethane (10 mL) and DIPEA (0.55 mL, 3 mmol) is added methylimino(thioxo)methane (0.2 g, 3 mmol) and stirred at 50° C. for 4 h and at r.t. overnight. The reaction mixture is extracted with, aq. acetic acid (1%), aq. sodium carbonate (10%) and brine. The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The residue is purified over silica gel.
Yield 69%, m/z 260/262 [M+H]+, rt 0.45 min, LC-MS Method X018_S02.
To I-33.1 (130 mg, 0.50 mmol) in ACN (2.5 mL) are added benzotriazol-1-yl-oxy-tris(dimethylamino) phosphonium hexafluorophosphate (BOP reagent) (330 mg, 0.50 mmol) and DBU (150 μL, 1.00 mmol) and stirred at r.t. for 0.5 h. The reaction mixture is purified by reversed phase HPLC.
Yield 51%
To 6-bromo-5-fluoro-tetralin-2-one (1 g, 4.11 mmol) and morpholine (0.36 mL, 4.11 mmol) in dichlormethane is added glacial acetic acid (0.52 mL, 9.05 mmol). The reaction mixture is cooled with an ice bath and sodium triacetoxyborhydride (1.74 g, 8.23 mmol) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred at r.t. overnight. Morpholine (0.2 mL) is added and stirred again at r.t. overnight. The reaction mixture is basified with potassium carbonate solution (20%) and stirred for 15 min. The organic layer is separated and the aq. layer is washed two times with dichlormethane. The organic layers are dried and concentrated. The crude product is purified by reversed phase HPLC Yield 57%, m/z 314/316 [M+H]+, rt 0.68 min, LC-MS Method X011_S03.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 57 is synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
To R91.1 1-tetrahydrofuran-3-ylpiperidin-4-ol (200 mg, 1.17 mmol) in dichlormethane (5 mL) is added dess-martin periodine (595 mg, 1.40 mmol) and stirred at r.t. for 5 h. The reaction mixture is filtered through ALOX/N and washed with cyclohexane/ethyl acetate 1:3. The filtrate is concentrated.
Yield 51%
To tert-butyl (4aS,7aR)-3,4,4a,5,7,7a-hexahydro-2H-pyrrolo[3,4-b][1,4]oxazine-6-carboxylate (200 mg, 0.88 mmol) in methanol (3 mL) are added formaldehyde in water (37%) (26.44 mg, 0.33 mmol) and glacial acetic acid (79.71 mg, 1.31 mmol), stirred at r.t. for 75 min, afterwards sodium triacetoxyborhydride (464.19 mg, 2.19 mmol) is added. The reaction mixture is stirred at r.t. for 2 h Additional formaldehyde in water (37%) (26.44 mg, 0.33 mmol) is added and stirred in a 50° C. warm water bath for 10 min, sodium triacetoxyborhydride (464.19 mg, 2.19 mmol) is added and stirred at r.t. for 1.5 h. The reaction mixture is diluted with aq. sodium hydrogencarbonate solution and water and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer is washed with aq. sodium hydrogencarbonate solution and brine, dried and concentrated. Yield 79
The following intermediates as shown in Table 58 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
To I-34.1 (167 mg, 0.69 mmol) in dichlormethan (3 mL) p-toluenesulfonic acid monohydrate (655.48 mg, 3.45 mmol) is added and stirred at r.t. overnight. The reaction mixture is extracted with sodium hydroxide 1 mol/L. The organic layer is separated dried and concentrated. Due to less yield the aq. layer is saturated with sodium chloride and extracted with dichlormethane.
The aq layer is concentrated and extracted again with dichlormethane. All organic layers are combine, dried and concentrated. Yield 76%
The following intermediates as shown in Table 59 are synthesized in a similar fashion from the appropriate intermediates:
R98 (31.4 g, 15.17 mmol), N-bromosuccinimide (32.4 g, 1.6 mmol), AIBN (4.98 g, 30.34 mmol) in tetrachloromethane is heated at 90° C. overnight. The reaction mixture is cooled down to r.t. and concentrated. The residue is dissolved in ethyl acetate and extracted with water. The organic layer is dried over MgSO4, filtered and concentrated. The crude product is purified by high vacuum destillation (boiling point 95° C.-98° C. by oil bath temperature of 140° C.)
Yield 67%
The following intermediate as shown in Table 60 is synthesized in an analogous manner from the appropriate intermediates:
For R99.1 the reaction temperature is 80° C. For the work up the reaction mixture is cooled to r.t. and the precipitate filtered off. The mother liquor is extracted with aq. hydrochloric acid (1 mol/L) and aq. sodium hydroxide (1 mol/L), dried and concentrated. The crude product is used without further purification.
To methyl 4-bromo-2-hydroxy-benzoate (4.3 g, 18.61 mmol) in acetonitrile (50 mL) are added bromomethylbenzene (2.23 mL, 19.54 mmol) and potassium carbonate (3.86 g, 27.92 mmol) and stirred for 4 h at reflux. The reaction mixture is cooled down to r.t., diluted with water and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer is separated, dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. The crude residue is purified over silica gel (eluent:cyclohexane/ethyl acetate 95:5). Yield 75%
I-35.1 (4.5 g, 14.01 mmol) is dissolved in THF (50 mL) and a solution of lithium aluminium hydride in THF (8.41 mL, 8.41 mmol) is added dropwise between 5° C.-10° C. The reaction mixture is stirred 1 h under cooling and 1.5 h at r.t. Afterwards the mixture is cooled down and hydrolysed with 30 mL aq. hydrodchloric acid (1 mol/L), diluted with water and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer is washed with water, dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. The crude residue is used for the next step without further purification. Yield 94%
To I-35.2 (3.85 g, 13.13 mmol) in dichlormethane (40 mL) is added triethylamine (2.21 mL, 15.76 mmol) and cooled down to 0° C.-−2° C. Methanesulfonyl chloride (1.12 mL, 14.45 mmol) dissolved in dichlormethane (3 mL) is added dropwise. The reaction mixture is stirred for 1 h at 2° C.-5° C. and overnight at r.t. The reaction mixture is concentrated, diluted with dichlormethane and water. The organic layer is washed with 1 mol/L hydrochloric acid, water, dried over MgSO4 and concentrated. The crude residue is used for the next step without further purification. Yield 74%
To tert-butyl N-(3-bromo-4-nitro-phenyl)carbamate (1 g, 3.15 mmol) in ethyl acetate (20 mL) is added tin (II) chloride dihydrate (3.56 g, 15.77 mmol) and stirred overnight at r.t. The reaction mixture is basified with potassium carbonate/sodium hydroxide. The organic layer is separated, dried and concentrated. The crude product is used without further purification for the next step. Yield 83%, m/z 287/289[M+H]+, rt 0.58 min, LC-MS Method X011_S03.
The following intermediate as shown in Table 61 is synthesized in an analogous manner from the appropriate intermediates:
To methyl 2-morpholin-3-ylacetate hydrochloride (1 g, 5.11 mmol) in methanol (25 mL) are added TEA (0.785 mL, 5.63 mmol) and acrylic acid methyl ester (0.465 mL, 5.16 mmol) and stirred overnight at r.t. Again acrylic acid methyl ester (0.465 mL, 5.16 mmol) is added and stirred 3 days at r.t. The reaction mixture is concentrated and the crude product is purified over silica gel (eluent: ethyl acetate).
Yield 93%, m/z 246[M+H]+, rt 0.77 min, LC-MS Method V011_S01.
Under argon atmosphere I-37.1 (1.09 g, 4.44 mmol) is dissolved in THF (40 mL) and cooled down to −70° C. Lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide 1 mol/L (9 mL, 9 mmol) is added dropwise and stirred for 4 h at −70° C. The reaction mixture is quenched with hydrochloric acid 1 mol/L (15 mL). Afterwards solid sodium carbonate (1 g) is added. The aq. layer is extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layers are combined, dried and concentrated. The crude product is purified over silica gel (eluent: ethyl acetate). Yield 68%
I-37.2 (0.63 g, 2.96 mmol) and hydrochloric acid 4 mol/L (15 mL) are stirred at 100° C. overnight. The reaction mixture is diluted with water and freeze-dried. The crude product is filtered over amino phase silica gel (eluent: dichlormethane/methanol). Yield 82%
To 4-bromo-2-fluoro-1-methylsulfonyl-benzene (2 g, 7.9 mmol) in DMF (15 mL) is added 2-methanesulfonyl-ethanol (1.47 g, 11.85 mmol). Sodium hydride (948.16 mg, 23.71 mmol) is added in portions at 0° C. The reaction mixture is allowed to come to r.t. and is added dropwise into cooled aq. hydrochloric acid. The aq. layer is extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer is dried over MgSO4, filtered and concentrated. The crude residue is purified by reversed phase HPLC·Yield 86%, m/z 251/253[M+H]+, rt 0.42 min, LC-MS Method X018_S01.
(rt=retention time) Deprotection Methods: TSA (toluene sulfonic acid cf. Example 1), SI (trimethylsilyl iodide cf. example 2 or 3), FA (formic acid cf. example 4 or 7), TFA (trifluoroacetic acid). Stereochemistry at the carbon atom adjacent to the nitrile group is assigned: Stereo bond means S-isomer, non-stereo bond means 1:1 mixture of stereoisomers.
Examples representing mixtures of stereoisomers can be detected and resolved into single stereoisomers through analytical and preparative chiral chromatography. Representatives of examples for this process are given in Table 64
Other features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following more detailed examples which illustrate, by way of example, the principles of the invention.
Materials: Microtiterplates (Optiplate-384 F) were purchased from PerkinElmer (Prod. No. 6007270). The substrate Gly-Arg-AMC was from Biotrend (Prod.-No.808756 Custom peptide). Bovine serum albumin (BSA; Prod.No. A3059) and Dithiothreitol (DTT; Prod.No D0632) were from Sigma. TagZyme buffer was from Riedel-de-Haen (Prod.-No. 04269), NaCl was from Merck (Prod.-No. 1.06404.1000) and morpholinoethane sulfonic acid (MES), was from Serva (Prod.-No. 29834). The DPP1 inhibitor Gly-Phe-DMK was purchased from MP Biomedicals (Prod.-No.03DK00625). The recombinant human DPPI was purchased from Prozymex. All other materials were of highest grade commercially available.
The following buffers were used: MES buffer: 25 mM MES, 50 mM NaCl, 5 mM DTT, adjusted to pH 6.0, containing 0.1% BSA; TAGZyme Buffer: 20 mM NaH2PO4, 150 mM NaCl adjusted to pH 6.0 with HCl
Assay conditions: The recombinant human DPPI was diluted in TAGZyme buffer to 1 U/ml (38.1 μg/ml, respectively), and then activated by mixing in a 1:2 ratio with a Cysteamine aqueous solution (2 mM) and incubating for 5 min at room temperature.
Five uL test compound (final concentration 0.1 nM to 100 μM) in aqua bidest (containing 4% DMSO, final DMSO concentration 1%) were mixed with 10 μL of DPPI in MES buffer (final concentration 0.0125 ng/μL) and incubated for 10 min. Then, 5 μL of substrate in MES buffer (final concentration 50 μM) were added. The microtiter plates were then incubated at room temperature for 30 min. Then, the reaction was stopped by adding 10 μL of Gly-Phe-DMK in MES-buffer (final concentration 1 μM). The fluorescence in the wells was determined using a Molecular Devices SpectraMax M5 Fluorescence Reader (Ex 360 nm, Em 460 nm) or an Envision Fluorescence Reader (Ex 355 nm, Em 460 nm).
Each assay microtiter plate contained wells with vehicle controls (1% DMSO in bidest+0.075% BSA) as reference for non-inhibited enzyme activity (100% Ctl; high values) and wells with inhibitor (Gly-Phe-DMK, in bidest+1% DMSO+0.075% BSA, final concentration 1 μM) as controls for background fluorescence (0% Ctl; low values).
The analysis of the data was performed by calculating the percentage of fluorescence in the presence of test compound in comparison to the fluorescence of the vehicle control after subtracting the background fluorescence using the following formula:
(RFU(sample)−RFU(background))*100/(RFU(control)−RFU(background))
Data from these calculations were used to generate IC50 values for inhibition of DPPI, respectively.
Determination of Neutrophil Elastase Activity in U937 Cytosolic Lysate Preparation after Incubation with Test Compound
Compounds in 100% DMSO were diluted in Medium (-FCS) with 10% DMSO and further diluted according to the experiment planned.
20 μl of the compound solution was transferred in the respective wells of the 24 well plate and diluted with 2 ml cell suspension/well containing 1,105 cells/ml (final concentration of DMSO=0.1%). Compound dilution factor=100
Compounds (up to 7 concentrations) were tested in triplicates with 3 wells for the DMSO 0.1% control, incubatet for 48 hours without medium change at 37° C., 5% CO2 and 95% relative humidity.
Transfer the cell suspension in 2.2 ml Eppendorf cups. Separate cells from medium by centrifugation (400×g; 5 min; RT); discard the supernatant. Resuspend in 1 ml PBS; centrifugation (400×g; 5 min; RT); wash cells twice with PBS. Add 100 μl Serin lysis buffer (ice cold) to the cell pellet; resuspend the pellet and store on ice for 15 minutes. Remove debris by centrifugation at 15000×g for 10 min at 4° C. Transfer 80-100 μl lysate supernatant in 96 well plate and store immediately at −80° C.
Frozen lysates were thawn at 37° C. for 10 minutes and stored on ice. Protein content was determined with Bradford protein assay. Lysates were diluted to 0.2-0.5 mg/ml protein in serine protease buffer+HSA.
Standard: NE (100 μg/ml stock solution in Tris-buffer; stored at −80° C.) was diluted in Tris-buffer+HSA to 750 ng/ml, and further serially diluted 1:2 for the standard curve.
Buffer, blank, standard and lysate samples were transferred into 384 well plate
The increase in fluorescence (Ex 360 nm/Em 460 nm) is determined over 30 minutes with a Molecular Device Spectramax M5 Fluorescence Reader. Kinetic Reduction (Vmax units/sec); 4 vmax points. The amount of neutrophil elastase (ng/ml) is calculated using the standard curve and the Spectramax software. The result is interpolated to ng/mg lysate protein using excel formula functions. Percent inhibition in the compound-treated lysate samples is calculated relative to the DMSO-treated control-sample (100−(compound-sample*100)/control-sample)
A test compound will give values between 0% and 100% inhibition of neutrophil elastase. IC50 is calculated using Graphpad Prism; nonlinear fitting (log(inhibitor) vs. response—Variable slope). The IC50 value is interpolated as the concentration of test compound which leads to a neutrophil elastase activity reduction of 50% (relative to the DMSO-treated control).
Materials: Microtiterplates (Optiplate-384 F were purchased from PerkinElmer (Prod.No. 6007270). The substrate Z-Gly-Pro-Arg-AMC was from Biomol (Prod.-No. P-142). L-Cysteine (Prod.No. 168149) was from Sigma. Sodium actetate was from Merck (Prod.-No. 6268.0250), EDTA was from Fluka (Prod.-No. 03680). The inhibitor E-64 was purchased from Sigma (Prod.-No. E3132). The recombinant human Cathepsin K proenzyme was purchased from Biomol (Prod.No. SE-367). All other materials were of highest grade commercially available.
The following buffers were used: Activation buffer: 32.5 mM sodium acetate, adjusted to pH 3.5 with HCl; Assay buffer: 150 mM sodium acetate, 4 mM EDTA, 20 mM L-Cysteine, adjusted to pH 5.5 with HCl,
Assay conditions: To activate the proenzyme, 5 μl procathepsin K were mixed with 1 ul activation buffer, and incubated at room temperature for 30 min.
5 μL test compound (final concentration 0.1 nM to 100 μM) in aqua bidest (containing 4% DMSO, final DMSO concentration 1%) were mixed with 10 uL of Cathepsin K in assay buffer (final concentration 2 ng/μL) and incubated for 10 min. Then 5 μL of substrate in assay buffer (final concentration 12.5 μM) were added. The plates were then incubated at room temperature for 60 min. Then, the reaction was stopped by adding 10 μL of E64 in assay buffer (final concentration 1 μM). The fluorescence in the wells was determined using a Molecular Devices SpectraMax M5 Fluorescence Reader (Ex 360 nm, Em 460 nm).
Each assay microtiter plate contains wells with vehicle controls (1% DMSO in bidest) as reference for non-inhibited enzyme activity (100% Ctl; high values) and wells with inhibitor (EM4 in bidest+1% DMSO, final concentration 1 μM) as controls for background fluorescence (0% Ctl; low values). The analysis of the data was performed by calculating the percentage of fluorescence in the presence of test compound in comparison to the fluorescence of the vehicle control after subtracting the background fluorescence:
(RFU(sample)−RFU(background))*100/(RFU(control)−RFU(background))
Data from these calculations were used to generate IC50 values for inhibition of Cathepsin K, respectively.
Determination of Metabolic Stability with Human Liver Microsomes
The metabolic degradation of the test compound is assayed at 37° C. with pooled human liver microsomes. The final incubation volume of 100 μl per time point contains TRIS buffer pH 7.6 (0.1 M), magnesium chloride (5 mM), microsomal protein (1 mg/ml) and the test compound at a final concentration of 1 μM. Following a short preincubation period at 37° C., the reactions are initiated by addition of beta-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate, reduced form (NADPH, 1 mM) and terminated by transferring an aliquot into acetonitrile after different time points. Additionally, the NADPH-independent degradation is monitored in incubations without NADPH, terminated at the last time point. The [%] remaining test compound after NADPH independent incubation is reflected by the parameter c(control) (metabolic stability). The quenched incubations are pelleted by centrifugation (10,000 g, 5 min). An aliquot of the supernatant is assayed by LC-MS/MS for the amount of parent compound.
The half-life (t½ INVITRO) is determined by the slope of the semilogarithmic plot of the concentration-time profile. The intrinsic clearance (CL_INTRINSIC) is calculated by considering the amount of protein in the incubation:
CL_INTRINSIC [μl/min/mg protein]=(ln 2/(half-life [min]*protein content [mg/ml]))*1,000.
The half-life (t½ INVITRO) values of selected compounds in the metabolic stability assay described above are listed in the following table
The compounds of general formula I may be used on their own or combined with other active substances of formula I according to the invention. The compounds of general formula I may optionally also be combined with other pharmacologically active substances. These include, ß2-adrenoceptor-agonists (short and long-acting), anti-cholinergics (short and long-acting), anti-inflammatory steroids (oral and topical corticosteroids), cromoglycate, methylxanthine, dissociated-glucocorticoidmimetics, PDE3 inhibitors, PDE4-inhibitors, PDE7-inhibitors, LTD4 antagonists, EGFR-inhibitors, Dopamine agonists, PAF antagonists, Lipoxin A4 derivatives, FPRL1 modulators, LTB4-receptor (BLT1, BLT2) antagonists, Histamine H1 receptor antagonists, Histamine H4 receptor antagonists, dual Histamine H1/H3-receptor antagonists, PI3-kinase inhibitors, inhibitors of non-receptor tyrosine kinases as for example LYN, LCK, SYK, ZAP-70, FYN, BTK or ITK, inhibitors of MAP kinases as for example p38, ERK1, ERK2, JNK1, JNK2, JNK3 or SAP, inhibitors of the NF-κB signalling pathway as for example IKK2 kinase inhibitors, iNOS inhibitors, MRP4 inhibitors, leukotriene biosynthese inhibitors as for example 5-Lipoxygenase (5-LO) inhibitors, cPLA2 inhibitors, Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase inhibitors or FLAP inhibitors, Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs), CRTH2 antagonists, DP1-receptor modulators, Thromboxane receptor antagonists, CCR3 antagonists, CCR4 antagonists, CCR1 antagonists, CCR5 antagonists, CCR6 antagonists, CCR7 antagonists, CCR8 antagonists, CCR9 antagonists, CCR30 antagonists, CXCR3 antagonists, CXCR4 antagonists, CXCR2 antagonists, CXCR1 antagonists, CXCR5 antagonists, CXCR6 antagonists, CX3CR3 antagonists, Neurokinin (NK1, NK2) antagonists, Sphingosine 1-Phosphate receptor modulators, Sphingosine 1 phosphate lyase inhibitors, Adenosine receptor modulators as for example A2a-agonists, modulators of purinergic rezeptors as for example P2X7 inhibitors, Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) activators, Bradykinin (BK1, BK2) antagonists, TACE inhibitors, PPAR gamma modulators, Rho-kinase inhibitors, interleukin 1-beta converting enzyme (ICE) inhibitors, Toll-Like receptor (TLR) modulators, HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, VLA-4 antagonists, ICAM-1 inhibitors, SHIP agonists, GABAa receptor antagonist, ENaC-inhibitors, Prostasin-inhibitors, Matriptase-inhibitors, Melanocortin receptor (MC1R, MC2R, MC3R, MC4R, MC5R) modulators, CGRP antagonists, Endothelin antagonists, TNFα antagonists, anti-TNF antibodies, anti-GM-CSF antibodies, anti-CD46 antibodies, anti-IL-1 antibodies, anti-IL-2 antibodies, anti-IL-4 antibodies, anti-IL-5 antibodies, anti-IL-13 antibodies, anti-IL-4/IL-13 antibodies, anti-TSLP antibodies, anti-OX40 antibodies, mucoregulators, immunotherapeutic agents, compounds against swelling of the airways, compounds against cough, VEGF inhibitors, NE-inhibitors, MMP9 inhibitors, MMP12 inhibitors, but also combinations of two or three active substances.
Preferred are betamimetics, anticholinergics, corticosteroids, PDE4-inhibitors, LTD4-antagonists, EGFR-inhibitors, CRTH2 inhibitors, 5-LO-inhibitors, Histamine receptor antagonists and SYK-inhibitors, NE-inhibitors, MMP9 inhibitors, MMP12 inhibitors, but also combinations of two or three active substances, i.e.:
The compounds of the invention and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts have activity as pharmaceuticals, in particular as inhibitors of dipeptidyl peptidase I activity, and thus may be used in the treatment of:
For treatment of the above-described diseases and conditions, a therapeutically effective dose will generally be in the range from about 0.01 mg to about 100 mg/kg of body weight per dosage of a compound of the invention; preferably, from about 0.1 mg to about 20 mg/kg of body weight per dosage. For Example, for administration to a 70 kg person, the dosage range would be from about is 0.7 mg to about 7000 mg per dosage of a compound of the invention, preferably from about 7.0 mg to about 1400 mg per dosage. Some degree of routine dose optimization may be required to determine an optimal dosing level and pattern. The active ingredient may be administered from 1 to 6 times a day.
The actual pharmaceutically effective amount or therapeutic dosage will of course depend on factors known by those skilled in the art such as age and weight of the patient, route of administration and severity of disease. In any case the active ingredient will be administered at dosages and in a manner which allows a pharmaceutically effective amount to be delivered based upon patient's unique condition.
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