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A convenient synthesis of dinorbile acids: Oxidative hydrolysis of norbile acid nitriles
Batta, Ashok K.,Datta, Subhash C.,Tint, G. Stephen,Alberts, David S.,Earnest, David L.,Salen, Gerald
, p. 780 - 784 (1999)
We report a convenient method for the synthesis of dinorbile acids (23,24-dinor-5β-cholan-22-oic acids, pregnane-20-carboxylic acids) in fair to good yields from norbile acid nitriles in one step by oxidative hydrolysis with oxygen in the presence of potassium-t-butoxide. The method results in stepwise overall removal of two carbon atoms in bile acid side chains in two steps. Dinorbile acids corresponding to several common bile acids have been prepared and their structures confirmed by spectroscopic methods. This simple method for synthesis of dinorbile acids may facilitate their study metabolically.
