Synthesis of Mesylated and Tosylated α-Hydroxy-Benzylphosphonates; Their Reactivity and Cytostatic Activity

Szalai, Zsuzsanna and Ábrányi-Balogh, Péter and Keglevich, György (2024) Synthesis of Mesylated and Tosylated α-Hydroxy-Benzylphosphonates; Their Reactivity and Cytostatic Activity. ACS OMEGA, 9 (28). pp. 31043-31055. ISSN 2470-1343

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Abstract

α-Hydroxyphosphonates and their acylated and phosphorylated derivatives may be of significant biological activity including cytotoxic effects. To extend the pool of the potentially bioactive species, new methane- and arenesulfonyloxyphosphonates were synthesized by the sulfonylation of differently substituted α-hydroxy-benzylphosphonates using methanesulfonyl chloride or p-toluenesulfonyl chloride at 25 °C in the presence of triethylamine in toluene. The new sulfonyl derivatives were obtained in 54–80% yields. In the case of the 4- or 2-methoxy substituent in the aromatic ring, surprisingly the corresponding α-chlorophosphonates were the exclusive products, whose formation was explained assuming a quinoid intermediate and supported by theoretical calculations. With a 3-methoxyphenyl substituent, the expected mesylation of the hydroxy group took place. Attempted alcoholyses of the diethyl α-methanesulfonyloxy-benzylphosphonates with different substituents in the benzyl ring at ∼140 °C in the presence of triethylamine under microwave irradiation left the P-function intact under the conditions applied, instead, the mesyloxy group was substituted by an alkoxy unit in a selective new reaction. The α-alkoxy-benzylphosphonates were isolated in 60–77% yields. While α-chloro- or α-bromo-benzylphosphonates proved to be rather inefficient in the Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction with triethyl phosphite, according to a new possibility, the α-methansulfonyloxy-benzylphosphonates underwent an efficient Arbuzov fission using the phosphite in excess at 135 °C. The arylmethylenebisphosphonates were obtained in yields of 76–81%. Bioactivity studies with the members of the phosphonate library revealed pronounced in vitro cytostatic effect of the α-hydroxy- and α-mesyloxy-3,5-di-tert-butylbenzylphosphonates on human breast carcinoma cell culture with IC50 values of 16.4 and 28.0 μM, respectively. The mesyloxy species was also cytostatic on melanoma cells (IC50 = 34.9).

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