UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,500,444 URAMIDOHOMOMEROQUINENE Robert Burns Woodward, Cambridge, Mass., and William Von Eggers Doering, New York, N
Patented Mar. 14, 1950 2,500,444 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,500,444 URAMIDOHOMOMEROQUINENE Robert Burns Woodward, Cambridge, Mass., and William von Eggers Doering, New York, N. Y., assignors to Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, Mass., a corporation of Delaware No Drawing. Application October 10, 1944, Serial No. 558,080 Claim. (C. 260-294) 2 This invention relates to the synthesis of Which stereoisomers may be isolated as chemical quinine and cinchona-like alkaloids. individuals and then subjected to further trans The present application is a continuation-in formation. It is preferable, however, instead of part of our copending applications Serial No. 508,- isolating the stereoisoners from their mixture, to 954, filed November 4, 1943, now Patent No. 2,475,- Oxidize the latter and thus form a mixture of the 932, entitled "7-hydroxyisoquinoline derivatives Corresponding ketones, i. e., the stereoisomers of and method of preparing the same,' and Serial 2-acetyl-7-keto - 8-methyldecahydroisoquino No. 523,940, filed February 25, 1944, now Patent line, and to isolate from the latter mixture the No. 2,395,526, entitled “Isoquinoline derivatives Stereochemically homogeneous products. The and methods of preparing the same.' 10 carbocyclic ring of each stereoisomeric ketone may It is one object of the present invention to pro then be cleaved to give the corresponding N vide a novel process of synthesizing homonero acetyl - 10 - oximinodihydrohomomeroquinene quinene from isoquinoline derivatives. ethyl ester having the formula Another object is to provide novel quinine and cinchona-like alkaloids, and particularly al H. kaloids having the structural formula of quinine 5 /\H NoH and quinotoxine, derived from 1-cis-homonero CH3CON 5C-C-CE quinene and racemic-cis-homomeroquinene and O from one of the trans-homomeroquinenes.
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