83914-31-2Relevant articles and documents
A Ready Conversion of a Pregnane-20-carboxaldehyde to 17α-Hydroxypregnan-20-ones and Pregn-16-en-20-ones
Biancini, Bruno,Caciagli, Valerio,Centini, Felice,Eletti-Bianchi, Giancarlo,Re, Luciano
, p. 1829 - 1835 (2007/10/02)
Reaction of (20S)-5α-chloro-3β-hydroxypregnane-20-carboxaldehyde (9, prepared in two steps from stigmasterol) with oxygen and potassium tert-butoxide, followed by trimethyl phosphite treatment, afforded 5α-chloro-3β,17α-dihydroxypregnan-20-one (6) and 3β,17α-dihydroxypregn-5-en-20-one (7).This mixture was converted into 7 by potassium hydroxide treatment, and into 17α-hydroxypregn-4-ene-3,20-dione (8) by reaction with pyridinium dichromate followed by potassium hydroxide treatment.Bromination-dehydrobromination of 9, in one or two steps, afforded (Z)- and (E)-5α-chloro-3β-hydroxypregn-17(20)-ene-20-carboxaldehyde (11).Reaction of 11 with oxygen and potassium hydroxide gave 5α-chloro-3β-hydroxypregn-16-en-20-one (12), which was converted to 3β-hydroxypregna-15,6-dien-20-one (13) by further potassium hydroxide treatment, and to pregna-4,16-diene-3,20-dione (14) by Oppenauer reaction using excess aluminium isopropoxide.