106 results about "Baccatin III" patented technology

A process for synthesizing a C-7 protected baccatin III compound represented by formula (A), which comprises reacting a 10-deacetylbaccatin III compound represented by formula (B) with a protecting agent and an acylating agent in the presence of a secondary amine and a nitrogen-containing compound. Also, a process for synthesizing a C-7 protected 10-deacetylbaccatin III compound represented by formula (C), which comprises reacting a 10-deacetylbaccatin III compound represented by formula (B) with a protecting agent in the presence of a secondary amine and a nitrogen-containing compound. In both processes the nitrogen-containing compound is selected from a nitrogen-containing heterocycle or a trialkylamine. When the nitrogen-containing heterocycle is selected, it may be an unsubstituted or a substituted pyridine or an unsubstituted or a substituted pyrazine. When a trialkylamine is selected, it may be, for example, triethylamine or diisopropylethylamine.wherein PG1 represents the organic residue of the protecting agent, PG2 represents the organic residue of the acylating agent, and R represents a simple or substituted aryl group or a heterocyclic group.

This invention provides methods whereby taxol, baccatin III, and other taxol-like compounds, or taxanes, can be produced in very high yield from all known Taxus species, e.g., brevifolia, canadensis, cuspidata, baccata, globosa, floridana, wallichiana, media and chinensis. Particular modifications of culture conditions (i.e., media composition and operating modes) have been discovered to enhance the yield of various taxanes from cell culture of all species of Taxus. Particularly preferred enhancement agents include silver ion or complex, jasmonic acid (especially the methyl ester), auxin-related growth regulators, and inhibitors of the phenylpropanoid pathway, such as 3,4-methylenedioxy-6-nitrocinnamic acid. These enhancement agents may be used alone or in combination with one another or other yield-enhancing conditions. While the yield of taxanes from plant cell culture of T. chinensis is particularly enhanced by use of one or more of these conditions, yield of taxanes for all Taxus species has been found to benefit from use of these conditions.

The invention provides a method for the semi-synthesis of paclitaxel on an industrialized basis. The method comprises the following steps: a) acetylating the 10-hydroxyl in the presence of CeCl3.6H2O as a high-efficiency specific catalyst to obtain baccatin III through the reaction; b) protecting the C-7-hydroxyl in the presence of trichloroethyl chloroformate to obtain baccatin III, wherein the C-7 position of baccatin III is protected; c) conducting the esterification reaction between the baccatin III obtained in the reaction of step b) and (4S, 5R)-3-benzoyl-2-(4-methoxyphenyl)-4-phenyl-5-oxazolinyl carboxylate to obtain the following derivatives; and d), opening the oxazole ring on the ring-shaped lateral chain of (4S, 5R)-3-benzoyl-2-(4-methoxyphenyl)-4-phenyl-5-oxazolinyl baccatin III, and synchronously removing the 7-protective group to obtain paclitaxel. The method of the invention breaks with the conventional method which sequentially comprising the steps of protecting the 7-position hydroxyl and acetylating the 10-position hydroxyl, so that the method has the advantages of shorter reaction time and less by-products; the yield of single-step reaction reaches 90%; and eachstep of reaction is conducted at normal pressure in the absence of protective inert gases. Therefore, the method is suitable for industrialized production.