Abstract:
METHODS FOR THE PREPARATION OF 2,3,3A,4,5,7,8,9,9AB,9BADECAHYDRO - 3AB-PRIMARY LOWER ALKYL-7-OXO-1H-BENZ(E) INDENES AND 4,4AB,4BA,5,6,7,8,8A,9,10-DECAHYDRO-8AB-PRIMARY LOWER ALKYL - 3H-PHENANTHREN-2-ONES BY CYCLIZING COMPOUNDS OF THE FORMULA WHERE R1 IS HYDROGEN OR LOWER ALKYL; Z'' IS CARBONYL OR CH(OR2''); R2'' IS HYDROGEN, LOWER AKYL, LOWER ALKANOYL, BENZOYL, NITROBENZOYL, CARBOXY-LOWER ALKANOYL, CARBOXYBENZOYL, TRIFLUOROACETYL OR CAMPHORSULFONYL; T'' IS -C(X'')=CH-, -C(OR3)=CH- OR -Q''-CH2-; R3 IS LOWER ALKYL; X'' IS BROMINE, CHLORINE OR IODINE; Q'' IS CARBONYL, LOWER ALKYLENE DIOXY-METHYLENE, DI-(LOWER ALKOXY)-METHYLENE OR HYDROXY-METHYLENE, R4 IS LOWER PRIMARY ALKYL AND M IS AN INTEGER HAVING A VALUE OF 1 OR 2. THE COMPOUNDS OF THIS SERIES ARE USEFUL AS INTERMEDIATES IN THE SYNTHESIS OF KNOWN STEROIDS WHICH ARE PHARMACOLOGICALLY ACTIVE AS FERTILITY CONTROL AGENTS.
Abstract:
Total synthesis of known progestationally active steroidal materials. The steroids can be synthesized depending on the particular starting reactants selected by employing as intermediates bicyclic compounds of the formula
WHEREIN M IS AN INTEGER HAVING A VALUE OF 1 OR 2; R4 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; Z is lower alkylenedioxy, CH(OR2) and carbonyl; R8 when taken along is hydrogen; R9 when taken alone is lower alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxy-carbonyl, lower cycloalkyloxycarbonyl, carbonyl-halide, hydrogen, carboxy, formyl and methylene-X, where X is a leaving group and when taken together are methylene; with the proviso that when Z is carbonyl R8 when taken alone is hydrogen; R9 when taken alone is carbonyl halide, hydrogen, carboxy, formyl and methylene-X where X is a leaving group and when taken together are methylene and R2 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy-lower alkyl, PHENYL-LOWER ALKYL, TETRAHYDROPYRANYL, LOWER ALKANOYL, BENZOYL, NITROBENZOYL, CARBOXY-LOWER ALKANOYL, CARBOXY-BENZOYL, TRIFLUOROACETYL AND CAMPHORSULFONYL AND REACTING THEM IN THE CASE WHERE R8 and R9 taken together are methylene or R8 is hydrogen and R9 is methylene-X with Beta keto esters and other analogs of the formula
WHEREIN R6 is selected from the group
LOWER ALKYL; R7 is lower alkyl; R15 is selected from the group consisting of oxo, lower alkylene-dioxy or (hydrogen and lower alkoxy); B is selected from the group consisting of lower alkoxycarbonyl-methylene, lower-aryloxy-carbonyl-methylene, cyanomethylene, lower alkyl sulfinyl-methylene, lower alkyl sulfonyl-methylene, and R25 and R26 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydroxyl and lower alkyl.
Abstract:
Optically active organic compounds are prepared starting from optically inactive reactants by means of an optically active agent which influences the course of the reaction. In particular optically active compounds having a "meso" type carbon atom undergo an intramolecular ring closure in the presence of an optically active agent to yield an optically active product having one additional ring. The present process is particularly useful in the preparation of optically active bicyclic diketones which are important intermediates in the total synthesis of steroids.