Nucleophilic enantioselective synthesis of 6-[18F]Fluoro-l-dopa via two chiral auxiliaries

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Abstract

Asymmetric nucleophilic synthesis of 6-[18F]fluoro-l-dopa was investigated in order to reach an enantiomeric excess of close to 100% of the l form of this amino acid. The radiochemical synthesis required [18F]fluoride as fluorinating agent and regioselective nucleophilic substitution of commercially available 6-nitroveratraldehyde. The [18F]fluorobenzaldehyde thus obtained was easily converted to the corresponding 2-[18F]fluoro-4,5-dimethoxybenzyl bromide. This alkylating agent was added to the lithium enolates of 1-(S)-(−)camphor imine of t-butyl glycinate (1) and (S)-(−)-1-Boc-2-t-butyl-3-methyl-4-imidazolidinone [(S)- Boc-BMI] (2) in order to compare the enantiomeric excess of the l form obtained in each case with these two chiral inductors.

The l-isomer of fluorodopa was isolated after H1 hydrolysis and HPLC purification in 5–10% radiochemical yield (decay corrected). The overall synthesis time was of 110 min. Through this synthetic pathway, the l-isomer of fluorodopa was obtained in 83% e.e with 1 and 96% e.e with 2 respectively, as determined by chiral HPLC.

A practical three step preparative scale synthesis of 6-[19F]fluoro-d,l-dopa is also presented.

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