Two unusual compounds, which are made up of a sterol portion fused at C-5 and C-6 to an atrovenetin-like part, have been isolated from a fungus that causes Sirococcus shoot blight of spruce. The structures of these compounds, sirosterol (4) and dehydroazasirosterol (13), were determined by spectroscopic methods and comparison with appropriate model compounds. Sirosterol is an adduct of ergosterol and atrovenetin (5) and dehydroazasirosterol is an adduct of 9(11)-dehydroergosterol and an azaatrovenetin. Both compounds give a monomethyl ether when treated with diazomethane and both have been transformed to the corresponding 3-ketosteroids. The preparation of the triol 6 resulting from the selective hydroxylation of the 5,6-double bond in ergosterol is described. A possible biogenesis of sirosterol from ergosterol endoperoxide and a desoxyatrovenetin is discussed.
两种不寻常的化合物,由甾醇部分与类atrovenetin部分在C-5和C-6处融合而成,已从引起云杉萌发枯病的真菌中分离出来。这些化合物的结构,sirosterol(4)和dehydroazasirosterol(13),通过光谱方法和与适当的模型化合物比较确定。Sirosterol是麦角固醇和atrovenetin(5)的加合物,而dehydroazasirosterol是9(11)-去氢麦角固醇和azaatrovenetin的加合物。两种化合物在处理二氮甲烷时均生成单甲醚,并且两者均已转化为相应的3-酮类固醇。描述了通过对麦角固醇中5,6-双键进行选择性羟化而得到的三醇6的制备。讨论了sirosterol可能从麦角固醇内过氧化物和去氧atrovenetin的生物合成途径。