Synthesis of the GPR40 Partial Agonist MK-8666 through a Kinetically Controlled Dynamic Enzymatic Ketone Reduction

A scalable and efficient synthesis of the GPR40 agonist MK-8666 was developed from a simple pyridine building block. The key step to set the stereochemistry at two centers relied on an enzymatic dynamic kinetic reduction of an unactivated ketone. Directed evolution was leveraged to generate an optim...

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Veröffentlicht in:Organic letters 2016-11, Vol.18 (22), p.5888-5891
Hauptverfasser: Hyde, Alan M, Liu, Zhijian, Kosjek, Birgit, Tan, Lushi, Klapars, Artis, Ashley, Eric R, Zhong, Yong-Li, Alvizo, Oscar, Agard, Nicholas J, Liu, Guiquan, Gu, Xiuyan, Yasuda, Nobuyoshi, Limanto, John, Huffman, Mark A, Tschaen, David M
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Zusammenfassung:A scalable and efficient synthesis of the GPR40 agonist MK-8666 was developed from a simple pyridine building block. The key step to set the stereochemistry at two centers relied on an enzymatic dynamic kinetic reduction of an unactivated ketone. Directed evolution was leveraged to generate an optimized ketoreductase that provided the desired trans alcohol in >30:1 dr and >99% ee. Further, it was demonstrated that all four diastereomers of this hydroxy-ester could be prepared in high yield and selectivity. Subsequently, a challenging intramolecular displacement was carried out to form the cyclopropane ring system with perfect control of endo/exo selectivity. The endgame coupling strategy relied on a Pd-catalyzed C–O coupling to join the headpiece chloropyridine with the benzylic alcohol tailpiece.
ISSN:1523-7060
1523-7052
DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.6b02910