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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 06, 1994
Qun Y Zheng, Superior, CO (US);
Christopher K Murray, Boulder, CO (US);
Hauser Chemical Research, Inc., Boulder, CO (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a process for converting purified, partially purified or crude taxane mixtures into a protected precursor of 10-deacetylbaccatin III and into 10-deacetylbaccatin III. The process comprises three steps, the first of which includes contacting a mixture containing at least one naturally occurring taxane compound having the structure (II) ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is phenyl, ##STR2## [an ester linkage at the C-13 position] with at least one hydroxy protecting group. The second step involves cleaving the ester linkage of the protected taxane thus giving rise to a protected precursor of 10-deacetylbaccatin III, the deprotection of which leads to 10-deacetylbaccatin III.