Potassium Carbonate → Colestolone

HRID 1199312Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1199312 reaction equation
C([O:9][C@H:10]1[CH2:34][CH2:33][C@@:32]2([CH3:35])[C@@H:12]([CH2:13][CH2:14][C:15]3[C@@H:31]2[CH2:30][CH2:29][C@@:28]2([CH3:36])[C:16]=3[C:17](=[O:37])[CH2:18][C@@H:19]2[C@H:20]([CH3:27])[CH2:21][CH2:22][CH2:23][CH:24]([CH3:26])[CH3:25])[CH2:11]1)(=O)C1C=CC=CC=1.C(=O)([O-])[O-].[K+].[K+]>CO>[OH:9][C@H:10]1[CH2:34][CH2:33][C@@:32]2([CH3:35])[C@@H:12]([CH2:13][CH2:14][C:15]3[C@@H:31]2[CH2:30][CH2:29][C@@:28]2([CH3:36])[C:16]=3[C:17](=[O:37])[CH2:18][C@@H:19]2[C@H:20]([CH3:27])[CH2:21][CH2:22][CH2:23][CH:24]([CH3:26])[CH3:25])[CH2:11]1

Participants

4

Reactant 2

HCID 11430Potassium CarbonateHCID 11249146HCID 11249146, compound

Product 1

HCID 10046567Colestolone

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 887MethanolSolvent

Procedure

Compound (4) does not show the characteristic streaking of the epoxide (3) by thin layer chromatography, using 10% ethyl acetate/hexane as the solvent system, on silica gel plates, but rather provides a discrete band at an Rf of about 0.1-0.2. The compound treated with a protic acid (preferably 70% perchloric acid) for 2 hours to obtain the precursor (3β,5α)-3-(benzoyloxy)cholest-8(14)en-15-one (6). The precursor (6) is dissolved in a protic solvent, preferably methanol, and treated with potassium carbonate as hereinbefore described to provide the desired product (7). The alternate procedures of Scheme II for the debenzoylation may also be used.

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-dbac642e3e36401dad3b4d995c8a12db
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1990_02
Patent number
US04900477

Reaction notes

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