Nitrogen → HCID 68519354, compound

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An attempt was also made to prepare the organometallic reagent with 1,2-dichloroethylene. A 100 mL three-neck flask equipped with a N2 gas bubbler, a thermometer, and a dropping funnel was charged with 1,2-dichloroethylene (cis, Aldrich, 0.16 mL, 2 mmol, mw=97, d=1.28). Dry THF (7 mL) was added, and the solution was cooled to -10° C., n-BuLi (2.5M in THF, 1.6 mL, 4 mmol) was added dropwise over a period of 10 min. The mixture was stirred at -30° C. for 20 min and then at 0°-5° C. for 10 more min. The resulting reagent was then recooled to -30° C. and was treated dropwise with a solution of 5β-pregnan-3,20-dione, 20-ketal (360 mg, 1 mmol) in THF (15 mL). The cooling bath was removed and the mixture was stirred at room temp. for 30 min. (100% conversion as detected by TLC). The cooling bath was removed and the resulting solution was quenched with sat. NH4Cl solution (1 mL). The solvent was removed and the residue was dissolved in acetone (30 mL). After adding 2N HCl (5 mL) the solution was stirred at ambient temperature for 1.5 h. The mixture was neutralized with dil. NaOH solution (pH 5-6). The precipitated solid (429 mg) was collected by filtration, washed with water, and dried. The crude product was then purified by column chromatography over silica gel (toluene acetone 95:5) to yield 3β-chloroethynyl-3α-hydroxy-5β-pregnan-20-one (130 mg); TLC-Rf 0.33 (toluene:acetone 95:5), NMR (CDCl3) δ 0.59 (s, 3H, Me), 0.97 (s, 3H, Me), 2.11 (s, 3H, Me), 2.55 (m, 1H).

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