d-myo-Inositol
1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors
(IP3Rs) are Ca2+ channels activated by the intracellular
messenger inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3, 1). The glyconucleotide adenophostin A (AdA, 2) is a
potent agonist of IP3Rs. A recent synthesis of d-chiro-inositol adenophostin (InsAdA, 5) employed suitably protected chiral building blocks and replaced
the d-glucose core by d-chiro-inositol.
An alternative approach to fully chiral material is now reported using
intrinsic sugar chirality to avoid early isomer resolution, involving
the coupling of a protected and activated racemic myo-inositol derivative to a d-ribose derivative. Diastereoisomer
separation was achieved after trans-isopropylidene
group removal and the absolute ribose–inositol conjugate stereochemistry
assigned with reference to the earlier synthesis. Optimization of
stannylene-mediated regiospecific benzylation was explored using the
model 1,2-O-isopropylidene-3,6-di-O-benzyl-myo-inositol and conditions successfully
transferred to one conjugate diastereoisomer with 3:1 selectivity.
However, only roughly 1:1 regiospecificity was achieved on the required
diastereoisomer. The conjugate regioisomers of benzyl derivatives 39 and 40 were successfully separated and 39 was transformed subsequently to InsAdA after amination,
pan-phosphorylation, and deprotection. InsAdA from this synthetic
route bound with greater affinity than AdA to IP3R1 and
was more potent in releasing Ca2+ from intracellular stores
through IP3Rs. It is the most potent full agonist of IP3R1 known and .equipotent with material from the fully chiral
synthetic route.