Efficient Syntheses of 2-Chloro-2‘-deoxyadenosine (Cladribine) from 2‘-Deoxyguanosine1
- 11 January 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Organic Chemistry
- Vol. 68 (3) , 989-992
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jo020644k
Abstract
We report efficient syntheses of the clinical agent cladribine (2-chloro-2‘-deoxyadenosine, CldAdo), which is the drug of choice against hairy-cell leukemia and other neoplasms, from 2‘-deoxyguanosine. Treatment of 3‘,5‘-di-O-acetyl- or benzoyl-2‘-deoxyguanosine (1) with 2,4,6-triisopropyl- or 4-methylbenzenesulfonyl chloride gave high yields of the 6-O-arylsulfonyl derivatives 2 or 2‘b. Deoxychlorination at C6 of 1 also proceeded to give the 2-amino-6-chloropurine derivative 5 in excellent yields. The nonaqueous diazotization/chloro dediazoniation (acetyl chloride/benzyltriethylammonium nitrite) of 2, 2‘b, and 5 gave the 2-chloropurine derivatives 3, 3‘b, and 6, respectively. The selective ammonolysis at C6 (arylsulfonate with 3 or chloride with 6) and accompanying deprotection of the sugar moiety gave CldAdo (64−75% overall yield from 1).Keywords
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