The chemical synthesis of phosphorothioate and phosphorodithioate analogues of lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) and cyclic phosphatidic acid (CPA)

Abstract

The chemical synthesis of new sulfur analogues of lysophospholipids has been described, including phosphorothioate/phosphorodithioate derivatives of lysophosphatidic acids (LPA) and phosphorothioate/phosphorodithioate derivatives of cyclic phosphatidic acids (cPA). For the preparation of LPA and cPA derivatives both oxathiaphospholane and dithiaphospholane approaches have been employed. Each lysophospholipid analogue has been synthesized as a series of five compounds, bearing five different fatty acid residues, both saturated (12 : 0, 14 : 0, 16 : 0, 18 : 0) and unsaturated (18 : 1), in the form of ammonium salts. The phosphorodithioate analogues of LPA were obtained as triethylammonium salts, however these were not stable and decomposed when transformed into the ammonium salt by ion exchange in aqueous methanol solution. The new sulfur analogues of LPA and cPA may share interesting biological properties of their parent compounds, and previously synthesized derivatives may behave as regulators of many metabolic processes and hopefully show new biological activity.