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Synthesis of 16α,19-dihydroxy-4-androstene-3,17-dione and 3β,16α,19-trihydroxy-5-androsten-17-one and their 17β-hydroxy-16-keto isomers
Numazawa,Mutsumi,Ogata,Osawa
, p. 247 - 257 (1987)
3β,16α,19-Trihydroxy-5-androsten-17-one [6] and 16α,19-dihydroxy-4-androstene-3,17-dione [14] were synthesized from the 5α-bromo-6β,19-epoxy-17-ketone derivative 1, using the bromination at C-16α of the 17-ketone 1 and the controlled alkaline hydrolysis of the 16α-bromo-17-ketones 2 and 11 as key reactions. Zinc dust reductive cleavage of the 6β,19-epoxy-16α-hydroxy-17-ketones 4 and 12, produced by controlled hydrolysis, gave the corresponding 19-alcohol derivatives 6 and 14, which were rearranged to the 17β-hydroxy-16-ketones 7 and 15 when treated with sodium hydroxide. The 3β,16α,17β,19-tetrol 8 was obtained from the 16α-ketol 6 by reaction with sodium borohydride.
