Trifluoroacetic anhydride → Anhydrodihydroartemisnin

To absolution of dihydroartemisinin (500 mg, 1.86 mmol) in dichloromethane (28 ml) at 0° C. under nitrogen was added 4-(N,N-dimethylamino)pyridine (37 mg) and trifluoroacetic anhydride (0.79 ml, 5.58 mmol). The mixture was allowed to warm to room temperature and stirred overnight. The solution was then concentrated in vacuo. The residue was purified by flash chromatography (SiO2; ether:hexane from 0.5:9.5 to 1.5:8.5) to give 9,10-anhydro-10-deoxoartemisinin (9,10-anhydroartemisinin) (180 mg, 25%) as a white solid. M.p. 100° C.; [α]D20.5 +155.74° (c. 0.0101 in CHCl3); νmax (film): 2948, 2922, 2862, 2850, 1684, 1432, 1372, 1334, 1198, 1178, 1158, 1142, 1114, 1078, 1028, 1016, 992, 954, 944, 904, 880, 828, 812; δH, 6.18 (1H, s, H-10), 5.54 (1H, s, H-12), 2.40 (1H, ddd, J=17.1, 13.2, 4.14 Hz, H-9), 2.00-2.05 (2H, m), 1.88-1.95 (1H, m), 1.07-1.73 (8H, m), 1.58 (3H, d, J=1.37 Hz, H-16), 1.42 (3H, s, H-14), 0.98 (3H, d, J=5.98 Hz, H-1 S); m/z (EI) 380 (M+); Anal. Calc. for C15H22O4: C, 67.67; H, 8.27; Found: C, 67.63; H, 8.51.

1. concentrationThe solution was then concentrated in vacuo
2. customThe residue was purified by flash chromatography (SiO2; ether:hexane from 0.5:9.5 to 1.5:8.5)

ORD record

ord-17252ff2f1c24da783fcddc09c3b411e

Source dataset

uspto-grants-2006_01

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1

Patent number

US06984640B1