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RESEARCH ARTICLE

A Computational Investigation of the Uncatalysed and Water-Catalysed Acyl Rearrangements in Ingenol Esters*

Asja A. Kroeger A and Amir Karton A B
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A School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.

B Corresponding author. Email: amir.karton@uwa.edu.au

Australian Journal of Chemistry 71(4) 212-221 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH17501
Submitted: 12 September 2017  Accepted: 18 October 2017   Published: 23 November 2017

Abstract

Ingenol esters have been identified as potent anticancer and HIV latency reversing agents. Ingenol-3-angelate was recently approved as a topical treatment for precancerous actinic keratosis skin lesions. It was found, however, that ingenol esters can undergo a series of acyl rearrangements, which may affect their biological potency and the shelf-life of drug formulations. We use double-hybrid density functional theory to explore the mechanisms for the uncatalysed and water-catalysed acyl migrations in a model ingenol ester. The uncatalysed reaction may proceed either via a concerted mechanism or via a stepwise mechanism that involves a chiral orthoester intermediate. We find that the stepwise pathway is kinetically preferred by a significant amount of ΔΔH298 = 44.5 kJ mol−1. The uncatalysed 3-O-acyl to 5-O-acyl and 5-O-acyl to 20-O-acyl stepwise rearrangements involve cyclisation and ring-opening steps, both concomitant with a proton transfer. We find that the ring-opening step is the rate-determining step for both rearrangements, with reaction barrier heights of ΔH298 = 251.6 and 177.1 kJ mol−1 respectively. The proton transfers in the cyclisation and ring-opening steps may be catalysed by a water molecule. The water catalyst reduces the reaction barrier heights of these steps by over 90 kJ mol−1.


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