Reaction of fucosterol 24,28-epoxide with boron trifluoride etherate

1 January 1971

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society D: Chemical Communications

No. 22,p. 1498
https://doi.org/10.1039/c29710001498

Abstract

Brief treatment of fucosterol 24,28-epoxide with BF₃ etherate gives desmosterol by a fragmentation reaction, which could be a model reaction for biological dealkylation of the sterol side-chain in insects.

Keywords

TREATMENT
BORON
FUCOSTEROL
MODEL
EPOXIDE
INSECTS
DEALKYLATION
DESMOSTEROL
BRIEF
SIDE