Highly efficient epoxidation of unsaturated steroids using magnesium bis(monoperoxyphthalate) hexahydrate
作者:João F.S. Carvalho、M. Manuel Cruz Silva、M. Luisa Sá e Melo
DOI:10.1016/j.tet.2009.01.100
日期:2009.4
Fast generation of epoxides from the corresponding homoallylic and allylic steroidal olefins was developed by using magnesium bis(monoperoxyphthalate) hexahydrate (MMPP) as oxidant suspended in acetonitrile (CH3CN) at reflux temperature. The protocol involves the use of a safe readily available oxidant along with an easy work-up, which renders the process very efficient. Selective 4,5- and 5,6-epoxidations
Circular dichroism of some optically active steroidal iodides
作者:R. C. Cookson、J. M. Coxon
DOI:10.1039/j39710001466
日期:——
A series of steroidiodides show the expected absorption maximum at 260–270 nm in their u.v. spectra, and a corresponding maximum in their circulardichroism curves at slightly shorter wavelengths, the sign of which for the secondary iodides usually agrees with that recently reported for alkyl iodides. However, adjacent hetero-substituents or unsaturation may reverse the sign.
Atypical regioselective biohydrolysis on steroidal oxiranes by Aspergillus niger whole cells: Some stereochemical features
作者:Fabricio R. Bisogno、Alejandro A. Orden、Celeste Aguirre Pranzoni、Diego A. Cifuente、Oscar S. Giordano、Marcela Kurina Sanz
DOI:10.1016/j.steroids.2007.04.003
日期:2007.7
5,6-Epoxycholestan-3 beta-ol derivatives were hydrolyzed in a diastereoconvergent manner by growing and resting cells of several strains of Aspergillus niger, particularly A. niger ATCC 11394. These strains displayed opposite regioselectivity toward each isomer in an a and P epoxide mixture, thus, the nucleophilic attack took place at the less substituted and the most substituted carbon atom on each diasteromer, respectively These biocatalysts opened trisubstituted oxiranes but were unable to hydrolyze the disubstituted oxiranes in the tested sterol derivatives. These findings suggest that A. niger strains possess another hydrolytic ability different from the commercial A. niger epoxide hydrolase (EH) that did not accept this kind of steroidal oxiranes as substrates. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Efficient Chemoenzymatic Synthesis, Cytotoxic Evaluation, and SAR of Epoxysterols
作者:João F. S. Carvalho、M. Manuel Cruz Silva、João N. Moreira、Sérgio Simões、M. Luisa Sá e Melo
DOI:10.1021/jm9003973
日期:2009.7.9
A library of diastereomerically pure epoxysterols, prepared by combining chemical and enzymatic methodologies, was evaluated for cytotoxicity toward human cancer and noncancer cell lines. Unsaturated steroids were oxidized by magnesium bis(monoperoxyphthal ate) hexahydrate in acetonitrile, and the resulting epimeric epoxides were enzymatically separated using Novozym 435 or lipase AY. Some of the synthesized epoxysterols have potent cytotoxicity and higher activity on cancer cell lines HT29 and LAMA-84.
Steric control of epoxidation by carbamate and amide groups. Evidence for the carbonyl-directed epoxidation