Ammonium Hydroxide → 21-Aminoepothilone B

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To a stirred suspension of epothilone F (2.5 g, 4.77 mmol, 86.2% potency) in tetrahydrofuran (25 ml) was added diphenylphosphoryl azide (1.14 ml, 1.45 g, 5.25 mmol, 1.1 equivalents) at room temperature. The mixture was stirred for approximately 5 min. 1,8-Diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene (0.86 ml, 0.87 g, 5.73 mmol, 1.2 equivalents) was then added over 10 min. The mixture was stirred for 10 min, and then allowed to warm to 40° C. and stirred for 3 hours. The mixture was cooled to 30° C., and a mixture of aqueous solution of NH4Cl (2M, 2.5 ml) and NH4OH (2M, 2.5 ml) was added. After the mixture was stirred for 10 min at 30° C., trimethylphosphine (1M in tetrahydrofuran, 5.01 ml, 5.01 mmol, 1.05 equivalents) was added over 10 min. The mixture was allowed to stir at 30° C. for 3 hours and then at room temperature for 15 hours. EtOAc (100 ml) and aqueous NH4OH (1 M, 20 ml) were added. The organic layer was washed with aqueous NH4OH (1 M, 20 ml). The combined aqueous layers were extracted with EtOAc (20 ml). The combined organic layers were washed with H2O (20 ml) and dried over MgSO4. The solvents were removed on a rotary evaporator, and the residue dried in vacuo to provide the crude 21-amino epothilone B (2.45 g) as an off-white solid. The crude 21-amino epothilone B (2.45 g) was crystallized from EtOAc/heptane to give 21-amino epothilone B (1.86 g, 86.5% yield corrected for input potency) as a white solid.

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