Ciprefadol

Ciprefadol
Clinical data
ATC code none
Identifiers
CAS Number 59889-36-0
PubChem (CID) 333483
ChemSpider 295505
ChEMBL CHEMBL2111073
Chemical and physical data
Formula C19H27NO
Molar mass 285.423 g/mol
3D model (Jmol) Interactive image

Ciprefadol is an opioid analgesic that is an isoquinoline derivative most closely related to cyclazocine and picenadol,[1] with a number of other related compounds known.[2][3][4][5] Ciprefadol is a mixed agonist–antagonist at μ-opioid receptors and can partly block the effects of morphine at low doses, though at higher doses it acts more like a full agonist. It is also a potent κ-opioid agonist, unlike the corresponding N-methyl and N-phenethyl derivatives which are reasonably μ-selective agonists.[6]

Synthesis

Fusion of an alicyclic ring onto the piperidine so as to form a perhydroisoquinoline is apparently consistent with analgesic activity.

Ciprefadol synthesis: D. M. Zimmerman and VI. S. Marshall, Eli Lilly; U.S. Patent 4,029,796 (1977).

Synthesis of this agent, ciprefadol (12), starts with the Michael addition of the anion from cyclohexanone (1) onto acrylonitrile. Saponification of the nitrile (2) to the corresponding acid (3) followed by Curtius rearrangement leads to isocyanate (5). Acid hydrolysis of the isocyanate leads directly to the indoline (6), no doubt by way of internal Schiff base formation from the intermediate amine. Methylation by means of trimethyloxonium tetrafluoroborate affords ternary iminium salt 7. Treatment of that reactive carbonyl-like functionality with diazomethane gives the so-called azonia salt 8 (note the analogy to the hypothetical oxirane involved in ring expansion of ketones with diazomethane). Exposure of the aziridinium intermediate to base leads to ring opening and consequent formation of the octahydroisoquinoline (9). Reduction of the enamine (catalytic or borohydride) affords the perhydroisoquinoline 10. This compound is then subjected to one of the N-demethylation sequences and the resulting secondary amine alkylated with cyclopropylmethyl bromide; O-Demethylation of the phenol ether completes the preparation of ciprefadol (12).

References

  1. Dennis M. Zimmerman et al. N-cycloalkylmethyl decahydroisoquinolines. US Patent 4001248, Jun 7, 1974
  2. David R. Brittelli et al. 4a-Aryl-trans-decahydroisoquinolines. US Patent 4419517, Apr 8, 1975
  3. Henry Rapoport et al. Synthesis of 4A-aryl-decahydroisoquinolines. US Patent 4189583, Apr 26, 1978
  4. Judd DB, Brown DS, Lloyd JE, McElroy AB, Scopes DI, Birch PJ, Hayes AG, Sheehan MJ. Synthesis, antinociceptive activity, and opioid receptor profiles of substituted trans-3-(decahydro- and octahydro-4a-isoquinolinyl)phenols. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 1992 Jan;35(1):48-56. PMID 1310115
  5. Carroll FI, Chaudhari S, Thomas JB, Mascarella SW, Gigstad KM, Deschamps J, Navarro HA. N-substituted cis-4a-(3-hydroxyphenyl)-8a-methyloctahydroisoquinolines are opioid receptor pure antagonists. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 2005 Dec 29;48(26):8182-93. PMID 16366600
  6. Zimmerman DM, Cantrell BE, Swartzendruber JK, Jones ND, Mendelsohn LG, Leander JD, Nickander RC. Synthesis and analgesic properties of N-substituted trans-4a-aryldecahydroisoquinolines. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 1988 Mar;31(3):555-60. PMID 2831363



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