Synthesis of potential C27-intermediates in bile acid biosynthesis and their deuterium-labeled analogs
作者:Junichi Shoda、Magnus Axelson、Jan Sjövall
DOI:10.1016/0039-128x(93)90048-r
日期:1993.3
In connection with studies of alternative pathways in bile acid biosynthesis, potential intermediates in a pathway starting with 27-hydroxylation of cholesterol have been prepared in natural and deuterated forms. Established methods were used to prepare 27-hydroxycholesterol and 3beta-hydroxy-5-cholestenoic acid. Clemmensen reduction of kryptogenin in unlabeled and deuterated solvents yielded 27-hydroxy-cholesterol and 16-oxo-5-cholestene-3beta,27-diol, which were separated by adsorption chromatography on Unisil. The labeled 27-hydroxycholesterol and 3beta-hydroxy-5-cholestenoic acid derived from it consisted of molecules with seven (50%), six (20%), and eight (20%) deuterium atoms, and unlabeled molecules were not detected. The acetates of 27-hydroxycholesterol and methyl 3beta-hydroxy-5-cholestenoate were 7alpha-hydroxylated in a copper-catalyzed reaction with tert-butylperbenzoate, and the products were purified by chromatography on Unisil. The 7beta-epimers were obtained as side products. Labeled 3beta,7alpha-dihydroxy-5-cholenoic acid was prepared in the same way from 3beta-hydroxy-5-[2,2,4,4,23-H-2(5)-cholenoic acid. The 3-oxo-DELTA4 analogs of the 3beta-hydroxy-DELTA5 compounds were prepared by oxidation with cholesterol oxidase. The labeled products had the same isotopic composition as the starting materials. Gas chromatographic retention indices and mass spectral characteristics of the trimethylsilyl ether derivatives of the neutral steroid and the methylated acids are given for all compounds.