The preparation of 13-methylgon-4-enes and novel 13-polycarbonalkylgon-4-enes by a new total synthesis is described. 13-Alkylgon-4-enes having progestational, anabolic and androgenic activities are prepared by forming a tetracylic gonane structure unsaturated in the 1,3,5(10),9(11) and 14-positions, selectively reducing in the B- and C-rings, and converting the aromatic A-ring compounds so-produced to gon-4-enes by Birch reduction and hydrolysis.
1. A therapeutic composition having progestational activity comprising as active ingredient a 17-aliphatic carboxylic acid ester of 17.alpha.-ethynyl-18-methyl-19-nortestosterone and a pharmaceutical carrier for said compound.
A highly convergent and flexible strategy for the synthesis of a-ring aromatic steroids
作者:Lewis N. Mander、John V. Turner
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4039(01)81993-6
日期:1981.1
Using Hendrickson's criteria for systematic synthesis design, a strategy featuring a linear six carbon synthon (7) for bis-annulation has been devised for economic, flexible and highly convergent syntheses of A-ring aromatic steroids.