The invention belongs to the field of
drug synthesis, and relates to a new method for synthesizing physostigmine, a natural
drug against
senile dementia, and its derivative, anilinoformate, phenserine. The present invention uses L-
tryptophan 3 as
raw material, firstly prepares chiral
oxazolone intermediate 5, and then through intermolecular asymmetric cyclopropionation-ring-opening-ring and three-step one-pot
waterfall reaction, and diazonium Acetate reaction was prepared to obtain optically pure 3-substituted tetrahydropyrroloindole skeleton 6, which was reduced by
lithium aluminum hydride to obtain
diol-substituted intermediate 7, and intermediate 7 was treated with
Raney nickel (Raney-Ni ) after removing the hydroxymethylene group to obtain the intermediate 8 deoxy physostigmine (desoxyeseroline), and the intermediate 8 is obtained by electrophilic bromination reaction, methyl etherification,
demethylation and carbonamidation four-step reaction with high yield. Completed the synthesis of physostigmine and its derivative, anilinoformate, physostigmine, a natural
drug against Alzheimer's
disease. The method has the advantages of high key reaction yield, simple operation, short reaction steps, etc., and has the advantages of solving the problem of
raw material source of the marketed drug physostigmine and its derivative anilinoformate phenserine. important practical significance.