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Synthesis and mechanism of hydrolysis of estrogen 6-sulfates: Model compounds for demonstrating the carcinogenesis of estrogen
Takagi, Hidetoshi,Komatsu, Ken-Ichi,Yoshizawa, Itsuo
, p. 173 - 179 (2007/10/02)
To investigate the carcinogenesis of estrogen with respect to the chemical behavior of estrogen 6-sulfates, two epimeric 6-sulfates, pyridinium 3-methoxyestrα-1,3,5(10)-trien-6α-yl (8) and -6β-yl (11) Sulfates, were synthesized as the model compounds, and their chemical reactivities were examined. These sulfates were shown to he highly reactive: in water, they were readily and quantitatively converted to a common product mixture, composed of 3-methoxyestra-1,3,5(10)-trien-6α-ol (6) and -6β-ol (9) in an almost constant product ratio, with a predominant yield of the latter. The hydrolysis of both sulfates 8 and 11 proceeded in first-order kinetics with half-lives of 1.1 and 1.5 minutes, respectively. When the sulfates were hydrolyzed in 18O-water, the heavy-oxygen atom was shown to he incorporated quantitatively into the C-6 position of the products. These results demonstrate that estrogen 6-sulfates generate a highly reactive benzylic (C-6) carbocation in an aqueous solution, suggesting that the sulfates can act as carcinogens.
