Synthesis and absolute configuration of optically pure enantiomers of a kappa-opioid receptor selective agonist
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B DeCosta1, C George, R B Rothman
1Section on Drug Design and Synthesis, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892.
FEBS Letters
|November 2, 1987
Abstract:
The enantiomers of U50,488, ligands highly selective for kappa-opioid receptors, have been prepared by a refined procedure and their optical purity demonstrated. The absolute configuration of (+)-trans-2-pyrrolidinyl-N-methylcyclohexylamine, a chemically versatile intermediate for synthesis of analogs of kappa-opioid receptor ligands with defined chirality, has been determined to be 1S,2S by X-ray crystallographic analysis. This intermediate has been used to synthesize the optically pure U50,488 enantiomers with known absolute configuration.