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TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF ENANTIOPURE DESOGESTREL
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Page/Page column 28, (2009/04/25)
The present invention relates to a total synthesis of desogestrel and derivatives thereof, and to intermediate compounds of this synthesis.
Enantioselective total synthesis of the oral contraceptive desogestrel by a double heck reaction
Tietze, Lutz F.,Krimmelbein, Ilga K.
experimental part, p. 1541 - 1551 (2009/04/04)
A novel enantioselective total synthesis of the oral contraceptive desogestrel (2) is described, in which the tetracyclic steroid core is formed by a sequence of two consecutive Heck reactions. Conversion of the known enantiopure diketone 7 led to the chiral bicycle 6 which was used for a diastereoselective intermolecular Heck reaction with vinyliodide 5 to give 15. In the following intramolecular Heck reaction, the tetracyclic ring system was formed to give 4, from which the synthesis of desogestrel (2) was furnished.