Ethylenediamine → HCID 86740722, compound

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Potassium hydroxide (7.75 g), calcium carbide (21.0 g), t-butanol (19 ml) and ethylene diamine (187 ml) are combined in a 500 ml Parr pressure bottle which is sealed with a foil covered rubber stopper which is wired to the bottle. The heterogenous mixture is stirred at 40° for about 16 hr (though about 4 hr is sufficient). The mixture is cooled to 20°-25° and 3-methoxyandrosta-3,5-dien-17-one (IAa, 11.80 g) is added as a solid. The reaction mixture is then stirred at 20°-25° for 5 hr. The mixture is transferred to a flask with a mechanical stirrer. The mixture is washed with methylene chloride (300 ml), cooled to 0°, quenched under a nitrogen atmosphere by the slow addition of acetic acid (57.2 ml). Water (300 ml) is added at a sufficiently slow rate to keep foaming under control. The mixture is filtered and the solids washed with methylene chloride. The filtrate phases are separated, the aqueous phase is back-extracted (twice) with methylene chloride. The organic phases are combined, washed with water (three times), dried over sodium sulfate and concentrated to an oil. The oil in ethyl acetate (75 ml) is heated to reflux and is allowed to crystallize at 20°-25° overnight to give the title compound, NMR (CDCl3) 0.90, 1.0, 2.47, 3.59, 5.15 and 5.23 δ.

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