A ready synthesis of 5α,14β-cholest-7-en-3β-ol
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- No. 4,p. 378-380
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p19760000378
Abstract
Reduction of 3β-acetoxy-8α,14α-epoxy-5α-cholestan-7-one or 3β-acetoxy-5α-cholest-8(14)-en-7-one with zinc dust in methanolic N-sulphuric acid yields 3β-acetoxy-5α,14β-cholest-7-ene with minor amounts of 3β-acetoxy-5α,14β-cholestan-7-one, and constitutes a novel, simple synthesis of 14β-steroids.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit: