TY - JOUR
T1 - Synthesis of epoxyeicosatrienoic acids and heteroatom analogs
AU - Falck, J. R.
AU - Yadagiri, P.
AU - Capdevila, J.
PY - 1990/1/1
Y1 - 1990/1/1
N2 - The chapter presents a study on synthesis of epoxyeicosatrienoic acids and heteroatom analogs. The chapter mentions the need for a comprehensive review of the current status of the epoxygenase pathway with a critical discussion of its implications. The most characteristic and extensively studied epoxygenase metabolites are the four regioisomeric cis-epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs). They are relatively stable to hydrolysis at physiological pH [for example, leukotriene A4 (LTA4) and hepoxilin A3]. The exception is 5,6-EET which, in its free-acid form, readily decomposes to 5,6-dihydroxyeicosatrienoic acid and/or the corresponding δ-1actone. The absolute configuration of the EETs has been determined using material obtained from in vitro incubation of arachidonic acid with the major phenobarbital-inducible form of rat liver microsomal cytochrome P-450. Recent results suggest that the enantiomeric composition is highly dependent on the identity of the cytochrome P-450 isozyme. This may be significant because in some instances biological activity is sensitive to EET stereochemistry. Chiral syntheses of all the EET enantiomers have been achieved. Most investigators have relied on racemic EETs prepared by Corey's site-specific oxidation methodology or, more conveniently, by nonselective peracid epoxidation of arachidonic acid. This chapter describes procedures based on the latter reaction that have proved reliable in laboratories for the production and purification of nanomole-millimole amounts of EETs and their methyl esters. In light of the increasing interest in EET heteroatom analogs, protocols for converting EETs to cis-thiiranes and cis-aziridines are also included.
AB - The chapter presents a study on synthesis of epoxyeicosatrienoic acids and heteroatom analogs. The chapter mentions the need for a comprehensive review of the current status of the epoxygenase pathway with a critical discussion of its implications. The most characteristic and extensively studied epoxygenase metabolites are the four regioisomeric cis-epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs). They are relatively stable to hydrolysis at physiological pH [for example, leukotriene A4 (LTA4) and hepoxilin A3]. The exception is 5,6-EET which, in its free-acid form, readily decomposes to 5,6-dihydroxyeicosatrienoic acid and/or the corresponding δ-1actone. The absolute configuration of the EETs has been determined using material obtained from in vitro incubation of arachidonic acid with the major phenobarbital-inducible form of rat liver microsomal cytochrome P-450. Recent results suggest that the enantiomeric composition is highly dependent on the identity of the cytochrome P-450 isozyme. This may be significant because in some instances biological activity is sensitive to EET stereochemistry. Chiral syntheses of all the EET enantiomers have been achieved. Most investigators have relied on racemic EETs prepared by Corey's site-specific oxidation methodology or, more conveniently, by nonselective peracid epoxidation of arachidonic acid. This chapter describes procedures based on the latter reaction that have proved reliable in laboratories for the production and purification of nanomole-millimole amounts of EETs and their methyl esters. In light of the increasing interest in EET heteroatom analogs, protocols for converting EETs to cis-thiiranes and cis-aziridines are also included.
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U2 - 10.1016/0076-6879(90)87042-2
DO - 10.1016/0076-6879(90)87042-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 2233353
AN - SCOPUS:0025033331
SN - 0076-6879
VL - 187
SP - 357
EP - 364
JO - Methods in Enzymology
JF - Methods in Enzymology
IS - C
ER -