Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects in the existing synthetic method of obeticholic acid, the inventor finds that the purification efficiency of an intermediate in the synthetic process and the synthetic efficiency of obeticholic acid can be improved by protecting carboxyl of a compound V by using Wenreb amide through intensive research, so that the preparation method of obeticholic acid, which is few in byproducts, simple and convenient to operate, high in yield, low in synthetic cost and suitable for large-scale production, is provided.
The invention provides a new method for synthesizing obeticholic acid, which has the following reaction equation:
specifically, the synthesis method comprises the following steps:
1) the compound of the formula V is subjected to carboxyl protection reaction to obtain a compound shown as a formula IV;
2) the compound shown in the formula IV is subjected to reduction reaction to prepare a compound shown in a formula IIIa; further, carrying out configuration inversion on the compound IIIa under an alkaline condition to obtain a compound III;
3) the compound shown in the formula III is subjected to reduction reaction to prepare a compound shown in a formula II;
4) and removing the carboxyl protecting group from the compound in the formula II under the alkaline condition to obtain the obeticholic acid shown in the formula I.
In one preferred embodiment, the compound of formula V of step 1) is prepared by a carboxy protection reaction of a compound of formula V with dimethylhydroxylamine hydrochloride.
In a preferred embodiment, the reduction reaction in step 2) is catalyzed and hydrogenated by using a palladium carbon catalyst.
The invention also provides a compound shown as the formula IV,
the invention also provides a preparation method of the compound shown in the formula IV, the compound IV is prepared by performing carboxyl protection on the compound shown in the formula V, and the reaction equation is as follows:
in one preferred embodiment, the compound of formula IV is prepared by reacting compound V with dimethylhydroxylamine or a salt thereof to protect the carboxyl group.
In one preferred embodiment, the conditions for the carboxyl protection reaction comprise the addition of an organic base, a condensing agent and a condensation aid.
In one preferred embodiment, the specific steps are as follows:
respectively adding the compound V and an organic solvent into a reactor at 10-30 ℃, replacing and protecting with nitrogen, controlling the temperature to be 0-5 ℃, and respectively adding dimethylhydroxylamine hydrochloride; an organic base including triethylamine, N, N-diisopropylethylamine and the like, preferably N, N-diisopropylethylamine; a condensing agent comprising Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC), 2- (7-tolyltriazole) -N, N' -tetramethyluronium Hexafluorophosphate (HATU), (1- (3-dimethylaminopropyl) -3-ethylcarbodiimide hydrochloride) (EDCI), etc., preferably (1- (3-dimethylaminopropyl) -3-ethylcarbodiimide hydrochloride); a condensation assistant comprises 4-Dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP), 1-hydroxy-7-azobenzotriazole (HOAT), 1-Hydroxybenzotriazole (HOBT), preferably 1-Hydroxybenzotriazole (HOBT); stirring for 0.1-1 hour, heating to 20-25 ℃, continuing to react for 2-6 hours to obtain a reaction mixture, and further carrying out post-treatment on the reaction mixture to obtain the compound shown in the formula IV.
In one preferred embodiment, the organic solvent is selected from tetrahydrofuran, methyltetrahydrofuran, dichloromethane, etc., preferably dichloromethane.
The mass-to-volume ratio of the compound V to the organic solvent is 1 g: 5 ml to 1 g: 40 ml, preferably 1 g: 20 ml.
Preferably, the post-treatment is: adding water into the reaction mixture, stirring, standing for layering, extracting the water layer with an organic solvent, combining the organic layers, washing the organic layer, concentrating the organic layer under reduced pressure, adding a solvent favorable for crystallization, performing displacement concentration, precipitating a large amount of white solid, filtering, washing, performing suction filtration, collecting a filter cake, and drying to obtain a white solid IV.
The solvent which is favorable for crystallization is dichloromethane, methyl tert-butyl ether, ethyl acetate, n-heptane and the like, and preferably n-heptane.
Preferably, after a large amount of white solid is precipitated, n-heptane is added and stirred, the mixture is filtered after stirring at 10-30 ℃, the filter cake is washed with n-heptane, filtered and collected.
The mass-volume ratio of the organic phase decompressed concentrate to the added solvent which is beneficial to crystallization is as follows: 1 g: 2 ml to 1 g: 10 ml, preferably 1 g: 4 ml.
The invention also provides a compound shown as the formula IIIa or III,
the invention also provides a preparation method of the compound shown in the formula IIIa or the formula III, the compound IIIa is prepared by the reduction reaction of the compound shown in the formula IV, optionally, the compound IIIa is further prepared by the configuration inversion after the treatment under the alkaline condition, and the reaction equation is as follows:
in one preferred embodiment, the reduction reaction is catalyzed by a palladium-carbon catalyst.
In a preferred embodiment, the catalytic hydrogenation reaction comprises the following specific steps:
and (3) adding the compound IV, a catalytic hydrogenation catalyst and an organic solvent into a reactor at 15-30 ℃, performing hydrogen replacement, reacting at normal pressure, and performing post-treatment to obtain IIIa.
Preferably, the catalytic hydrogenation catalyst is a palladium carbon catalyst; preferably, the palladium on carbon catalyst is 10% Pd/C.
The organic solvent is methanol, ethanol, tetrahydrofuran, ethyl acetate, etc., preferably ethyl acetate.
Preferably, the post-treatment is: and after the reaction is completed, filtering, washing a filter cake by using an organic solvent, concentrating the filtered mother liquor under reduced pressure, adding a solvent which is beneficial to crystallization, continuously concentrating, separating out a large amount of white solids, washing, performing suction filtration, collecting the filter cake, and performing suction drying to obtain a white solid IIIa.
The mass-volume ratio of the filtered mother liquor reduced pressure concentrate to the added solvent which is beneficial to crystallization is as follows: 1 g: 2 ml to 1 g: 10 ml, preferably 1 g: 4 ml. The solvent which facilitates crystallization is preferably n-heptane.
In a preferred embodiment, the compound III is prepared by the following steps:
adding a compound IIIa, alkali and an organic solvent into a reactor at 10-30 ℃, replacing and protecting with nitrogen, heating to 45-50 ℃, stirring and reacting for 0.1-2 hours, and carrying out aftertreatment on the obtained mixed solution to obtain a compound III.
In a preferred embodiment, the base is selected from sodium hydroxide, potassium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium methoxide, sodium ethoxide, 1, 8-diazabicycloundecen-7-ene (DBU), triethylamine, tetramethylguanidine, etc., preferably sodium methoxide.
The organic solvent is selected from N, N-dimethylformamide, methanol, ethanol, N, N-dimethylacetamide, ethyl acetate, tetrahydrofuran and the like, and tetrahydrofuran is preferred.
Preferably, the post-treatment is: cooling the obtained reaction mixed solution to 20-25 ℃, adding another saturated citric acid aqueous solution and an organic solvent for extraction into another reactor, cooling to 0-5 ℃, dropwise adding the reaction mixed solution into the reactor at 0-5 ℃, stirring, standing for layering, extracting the water layer once with the organic solvent for extraction, combining the organic layers, and washing the organic layers; drying, concentrating the dried oil under reduced pressure, and draining to obtain foamy off-white solid compound III.
The organic solvent for extraction is dichloromethane, ethyl acetate, tert-butyl methyl ether preferably tert-butyl methyl ether.
The invention also provides a preparation method of the compound shown in the formula IIIa or III, the compound shown in the formula IV is obtained by carboxyl protection of the compound shown in the formula V, then IIIa is obtained by reduction reaction, optionally, the compound IIIa is further overturned under the alkaline condition to obtain the compound III, and the reaction equation is as follows:
the reduction reaction is a palladium-carbon catalyst catalytic hydrogenation reaction.
The invention also provides a compound shown as a formula II,
the invention also provides a preparation method of the compound shown in the formula II, wherein the compound II is prepared by the reduction reaction of the compound shown in the formula III, and the reaction equation is as follows:
in a preferred embodiment, the reduction reaction is preferably performed by using sodium borohydride.
In a preferred embodiment, the compound of formula II is prepared by a process comprising:
dissolving the compound III in an organic solvent at 10-30 ℃, adding the organic solvent into a reactor, carrying out nitrogen replacement protection, starting stirring, cooling the temperature of the reaction solution to-10-0 ℃, adding a reducing agent, carrying out stirring reaction at-10-0 ℃ for 0.5-2 hours, and carrying out post-treatment to obtain a compound II.
Preferably, the reducing agent is sodium borohydride.
Preferably, the organic solvent is methanol.
Preferably, the ratio of the compound III to the sodium borohydride is 5: 1 to 2: 1.
Preferably, the post-treatment is: after the reaction is completed, adding saturated citric acid aqueous solution for quenching, decompressing and concentrating the quenched suspension to remove part of organic solvent, extracting by using the organic solvent for extraction, combining organic layers, washing, decompressing and concentrating, adding ethyl acetate, stirring to separate out solid, stirring at 20-25 ℃ for 30 minutes to 2 hours, cooling to 0-5 ℃, stirring at 0-5 ℃ for 1 hour to 5 hours, filtering, and washing a filter cake by using cold ethyl acetate; and after the suction filtration is finished, collecting a filter cake, and drying to obtain a white solid II.
The preferred organic solvent is methanol. The organic solvent for extraction is tert-butyl methyl ether, ethyl acetate, isopropyl acetate, dichloromethane, etc., preferably dichloromethane. The crystallization solvent is preferably ethyl acetate.
The invention also provides a preparation method of obeticholic acid, wherein the obeticholic acid shown in the formula I is prepared by removing carboxyl protection in the formula II under an alkaline condition, and the reaction equation is as follows:
in one preferred embodiment, the preparation method is as follows:
adding the compound II, an alkaline substance and an organic solvent into a reactor at 10-30 ℃, replacing and protecting with nitrogen, starting stirring, heating to 70-90 ℃, stirring for reacting for 2-4 hours, and further performing post-treatment to obtain obeticholic acid.
Preferably, the alkaline substance is an aqueous sodium hydroxide solution.
Preferably, the organic solvent is methanol.
The mass-to-volume ratio of the compound II to the aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide is 1 g: 2 ml to 1 g: 10 ml, preferably 1 g: 3 ml. The concentration of the aqueous sodium hydroxide solution is 10%, 15%, 30%, 40%, 50%, etc., preferably 30% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution.
Preferably, the post-treatment is: after the reaction is finished, cooling to 20-25 ℃, adding water, concentrating the reaction solution after adding water under reduced pressure to remove part of organic solvent, extracting by using organic solvent for extraction, adjusting the pH value of the water layer to about 4-6 by using saturated citric acid aqueous solution, then adding organic solvent for extraction, wherein the organic solvent is ethyl acetate, dichloromethane, tert-butyl methyl ether and the like, preferably tert-butyl methyl ether, combining the organic layers, adding water for washing, concentrating under reduced pressure at the temperature of below 40 ℃, and concentrating under reduced pressure to obtain the obeticholic acid (I) white solid. Concentrating to obtain white foamy solid, stirring with dichloromethane, and crystallizing to obtain obeticholic acid (I) white solid.
In a preferred embodiment, the preparation method comprises the steps of reducing the compound shown in the formula III through carbonyl to obtain a compound shown in the formula II, and hydrolyzing the compound shown in the formula II to prepare obeticholic acid, wherein the reaction equation is as follows:
in a preferred embodiment, compound III is prepared by any of the methods described above.
The following table shows the structural formulae of the compounds mentioned in the examples