2931-65-9Relevant articles and documents
Development of a commercial process to produce oxandrolone
Cabaj, John E.,Kairys, David,Benson, Thomas R.
, p. 378 - 388 (2012/12/31)
A manufacturing scale process for the preparation of the anabolic steroid Oxandrolone was developed. Key elements included the following: the bromination of methylandrostanolone with perbromide to give the 2-bromoketone in ca. 80% yield with minimal dehydration, subsequent elimination of the bromide with Li2CO3/LiBr to give the 2-enone in ca. 70% yield with minimal formation of methyltestosterone, and an ozonolysis procedure to give the penultimate intermediate in ca. 90% yield. The overall yield from methylandrostanolone to Oxandrolone using the described process was 45% as compared to the original Searle yield of 8%.
DES-A AND DES-A-B-SECOSTEROIDS. PART III. DEGRADATION OF 17α-METHYLTESTOSTERONE INTO 17β-HYDROXY-17α-METHYL-DES-A-5,10-SECO-10-OXOANDROSTAN-5-OIC ACID
Rodewald, Wladyslaw J.,Jagodzinska, Barbara M.
, p. 709 - 716 (2007/10/02)
Transformation of 17α-methyltestosterone (1) into 17β-hydroxy-17β-methyl-des-A-5,10-seco-10-oxoandrostan-5-oic acid (11) is described.Pyrolysis of sodium salt of seco-keto acid 2, obtained from 1, afforded two epimeric des-A-ketones 3a and 4, respectively.The ring B cleavage between C-5 and C-10 was performed by Baeyer-Villiger reaction of compound 3a or 4, followed by hydrolysis of des-A-lactones 7 and 8 formed.The resulting des-A-5,10-seco-hydroxy acids 9 and 10 were oxidized into seco-keto acid 11.