摘要:
New approaches to 25-hydroxy vitamin D building blocks 7 and 8 have been developed. Tandem acid-catalyzed conjugate addition of ketene acetal 2d or 2c and acceptors 3 and then 11 yielded 5b (76% from 3) or 22 (64%), respectively, with the proper relative configuration on C20, C17, and C13 (steroid numbering, all compounds are racemic). The trans-hydrindan ring junction in 16 and 27 has been secured by chirality transfer in palladium-catalyzed hydrogenolysis of formates 15 and 26. Treatment of 16 with N-bromoacetamide followed by NaOH yielded a mixture of 8 beta,9 beta- and 8 alpha,9 alpha-epoxides 18 in a ratio of ca. 2:1, which was tosylated and reduced with lithium aluminum hydride without separation. The required diol 20 and its isomer 21 were obtained. In a complementary approach, 27 was oxidized into 8 alpha,9 alpha-epoxide 29 with a new reagent composed of m-CPBA, KF, and 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol. Opening of the epoxide ring in 29 with thiophenoxide anion followed by oxidation afforded dihydroxy sulfone 31. The latter was reduced via the respective dimesylate, and then the protective benzyloxy group was removed yielding 8.