Sodium Carbonate → Anhydro abiraterone

HRID 1451362Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1451362 reaction equation
C(B(CC)[C:4]1[CH:5]=[N:6][CH:7]=[CH:8][CH:9]=1)C.FC(F)(F)S(O[C:18]1[C@:19]2([CH2:36][CH2:35][C@H:34]3[C@@H:24]([CH2:25][CH:26]=[C:27]4[C@:32]3([CH3:33])[CH2:31][CH2:30][CH:29]=[CH:28]4)[C@@H:21]2[CH2:22][CH:23]=1)[CH3:20])(=O)=O.C(=O)([O-])[O-].[Na+].[Na+]>Cl[Pd](Cl)([P](C1C=CC=CC=1)(C1C=CC=CC=1)C1C=CC=CC=1)[P](C1C=CC=CC=1)(C1C=CC=CC=1)C1C=CC=CC=1.C1COCC1>[N:6]1[CH:7]=[CH:8][CH:9]=[C:4]([C:18]2[C@:19]3([CH2:36][CH2:35][C@H:34]4[C@@H:24]([CH2:25][CH:26]=[C:27]5[C@:32]4([CH3:33])[CH2:31][CH2:30][CH:29]=[CH:28]5)[C@@H:21]3[CH2:22][CH:23]=2)[CH3:20])[CH:5]=1

Participants

6

Procedure

The method followed that described in Example 1, using in step (b) diethyl(3-pyridyl)borane (0.88 g, 6.0 mmol), androsta-3,5,16-trien-17-yl trifluoromethanesulphonate (2.01 g, 5.0 mmol), prepared in step (a), THF (25 ml), bis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(II) chloride (35 mg, 0.05 mmol), and aqueous sodium carbonate (2M, 10 ml). Chromatography, on elution with dichloromethane, afforded the title compound (1.39 g, 84%) which crystallised from hexane, m.p. 110°-112° C. 1H-NMR (CDCl3) inter alia δ1.02(3H,s,19-CH3), 1.07(3H,s,18-CH3), 5.44(1H,m,6-H), 5.61(1H,m,3-H), 5.95(1H,dm, J 9.8 Hz, 4-H), 6.01(1H,m,16-H), 7.23(1H,m,Py 5-H), 7.66(1H,m,Py 4-H), 8.46(1H,m,Py 6-H), 8.63(1H,m,Py 2-H); MS m/z 331 (M+).

Workup

  1. washChromatography, on elution with dichloromethane

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-a6a53953e8794a9abbbf47c6f41773be
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1997_02
Patent number
US05604213

Reaction notes

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