Preprints (www.preprints.org) | NOT PEER-REVIEWED | Posted: 4 March 2021 Article Lipase Catalysed Synthesis of Enantiopure precursors and de- rivatives for β-Blockers Practolol, Pindolol and Carteolol. Morten A. Gundersen a, Guro Buaas Austli a, Sigrid Sløgedal Løvland, Mari Bergan Hansen, Mari Rødseth a and Elisabeth Egholm Jacobsen a, * a Department of chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Høgskoleringen 5, 7491 Trond- heim *
[email protected] Abstract: The -blocker (S)-practolol ((S)-N-(4-(2-hydroxy(isopropylamino)propoxy)phenyl)acet- amide) was synthesized with 96% enantiomeric excess (ee) from the chlorohydrin (R)-N-(4-(3- chloro-2 hydroxypropoxy)phenyl)acetamide, which was produced in 97% ee and with 27% yield. Racemic building block 1-((1H-indol-4-yl)oxy)-3-chloropropan-2-ol for the -blocker pindolol was produced in 53% yield and (R)-1-((1H-indol-4-yl)oxy)-3-chloropropan-2-ol was produced in 92% ee. The chlorohydrin 7-(3-chloro-2-hydroxypropoxy)-3,4-dihydroquinolin-2(1H)-one, a building block for a derivative of carteolol was produced in 77% yield. (R)-7-(3-chloro-2-hydroxypropoxy)-3,4-di- hydroquinolin-2(1H)-one was obtained in 96% ee. The S-enantiomer of this carteolol derivative was produced in 97% ee in 87% yield. Racemic building block 5-(3-chloro-2-hydroxypropoxy)- 3,4-dihy- droquinolin-2(1H)-one, building block for the drug carteolol was also produced in 53% yield, with 99% ee of the R-chlorohydrin (R)-5-(3-chloro-2-hydroxypropoxy)-3,4-dihydroquinolin-2(1H)-one. The yield of all four chlorohydrins increased by use of catalytic amounts of base.