CA1122591A - .delta. sun15 xx-steroid - Google Patents

.delta. sun15 xx-steroid

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CA1122591A
CA1122591A CA314,900A CA314900A CA1122591A CA 1122591 A CA1122591 A CA 1122591A CA 314900 A CA314900 A CA 314900A CA 1122591 A CA1122591 A CA 1122591A
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Helmut Hofmeister
Rudolf Wiechert
Klaus Annen
Henry Laurent
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Bayer Pharma AG
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C07ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    • C07JSTEROIDS
    • C07J33/00Normal steroids having a sulfur-containing hetero ring spiro-condensed or not condensed with the cyclopenta(a)hydrophenanthrene skeleton
    • C07J33/005Normal steroids having a sulfur-containing hetero ring spiro-condensed or not condensed with the cyclopenta(a)hydrophenanthrene skeleton spiro-condensed
    • C07J33/007Cyclic thioketals
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    • C07ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    • C07JSTEROIDS
    • C07J1/00Normal steroids containing carbon, hydrogen, halogen or oxygen, not substituted in position 17 beta by a carbon atom, e.g. estrane, androstane
    • C07J1/0051Estrane derivatives
    • C07J1/0081Substituted in position 17 alfa and 17 beta
    • C07J1/0088Substituted in position 17 alfa and 17 beta the substituent in position 17 alfa being an unsaturated hydrocarbon group
    • C07J1/0096Alkynyl derivatives
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    • Y02P20/55Design of synthesis routes, e.g. reducing the use of auxiliary or protecting groups

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Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
The present invention provides in a process for the production of a .DELTA.15-steroid having the general formula I

(I), wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a trialkyl silyl group or an acyl group and R2 represents an ethynyl group, a chloro-ethynyl group or a propynyl group, which comprises introducing the R2 group into the 17.alpha.position of a 17- oxo steroid having the general formula II

(II), wherein Y represents a ketalised keto group and one of the ----bonds in the 4, 5-, 5, 6- or 7, 10- position is a carbon-carbon double bond and the others represent carbon-carbon single bonds and A-B represents a carbon-carbon double bond or the grouping wherein R' represents a hydrogen atom, a silyl, acyl, sulphonyl or nitro group, the improvement in which Y in formula II
represents a keto group protected with ethane dithiol - (1,2) and the carbon-carbon double bond is in the 4,5-position.

Description

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The present invention relates to the production of D steroids.
In applicants copending application No. 263,032 filed October 8, 1976 Q15-steroids having the ~eneral ormula I

~ ~ 2 / ` (I) in which, Rl represents a hydrogen atom, a trialkyl silyl group or an acyl group and R represents an ethynyl group, a chloro-ethynyl group or a propynyl group are inter alia described.
Acyl radicals of physiological compatible acids are suitable as acyl radicals Rl. Preferred acids are organic carboxylic and sulphonic acids containing 1 to 16, particularly 1 to 11 carbon atoms, which belong to the aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic~
aromatic-aliphatic or heterocyclic series. These acids can also be saturated or unsaturated, monobasic or polybasic and/or sub-stituted in the usual manner. Alkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, oxo or amino groups or halogen atoms are mentioned as examples of the substituents.
Each of the alkyl groups of the trialkyl silyl group must contain 1 to 4 carbon atoms, the trimethyl silyl group being preferred.
The ~15-steroids having the general formula I have valuable steroid-hormone properties and can be used as pharma-ceutics.
According to copending Application Ser. No. 263,032 the ~15-steroids having the general formula I are produced by introducing the R2 radical into a 17-oxo steroid having the - 1- ~

~eneral formula II

B

A
~ ` ~ ~ (II) wherein Y represents a free keto group or a ketalised keto group and one of the ---- bonds in the 4, 5-, 5, 6- or 9, 10- position, is a carbon-carbon double bond and each of the other carbon-carbon single bonds and A-B represents a carbon-carbon double bond or the grouping C15 - C16, wherein R represents a hydrogen OR
atom, a silyl, acyl, sulphonyl or nitro group, by means of con-ventional methods with the aid of an agent yielding the radical R2, while forming a tertiary carbinol group at the 17-carbon atom, HORl being split off in the 15, 16-double bond, any primarily introduced protective group being split off and depen-din~ on the eventually desired meanin~ of Rl in the final pro-duct, the 17-hydroxy group is esterified if required, either prior to or after splitting off the protective group.

Trialkyl silyl radicals, particularly trimethyl silyl radicals or dialkyl silyl radicals, particularly dimethyl silyl radicals are suitable as silyl radicals Rl.
The radicals of organic carboxylic acids are suitable as acyl radicals Rl. Acyl radicals containing approximately 1 to 10 carbon atoms, for example, the acetyl, trifluoro-acetyl, propionyl, butyryl, valeryl, heptanoyl and benzoyl radical, are particularly suitable. Again, for example, the mesyl, ethane-sulphonyl, propionyl-sulphonyl and p-tosyl radical are suitable sulphonyl radicals R .

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The introduction of the radical R can be carried out by conventional methods with an organo-metallic ethynyl, chloro-ethynyl or propynyl compound. Such organo-metallic compounds are, for example, alkali metal acetylides, such as for example, potassium and lithium acetylide or potassium and lithium chloro-or methyl acetylide.
The organo-metallic compound can also be formed in situ and reacted with the 17-ketone having the for~ula II.
Thus, for example, acetylene and an alkali metal, particularly potassium, sodium or lithium, can be allowed to act on the 17-ketone in a suitable so'vent, in the presence of a C4- or C5-alcohol or of ammonia, or in the form of e.g. butyl lithium.
Li-thium chloro-acetylide can be formed from 1, 2-dichloro ethylene and an ethereal lithium-methyl solution. Ethinyl-magnesium or ethinyl-zinc halides, particularly ethinyl-magnes-ium bromide or iodide, are also suitable as organo-metallic ethinyl compounds. Dialkyl ether, tetrahydrofuran, dioxane, benzene and toluene are suitable solvents.
Accordin~ to copending application NQ . 263,032 in a ! 20 preferred method the reaction of the 17-oxo steroid is carried ' out with the aid of an agent yielding the radical R when the 3-; keto group is present as a protected ketal. The ketal radicals are derived from the alcohols usually used for the protection of oxo groups. Ethylene glycol and 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-propane-diole are mentioned as examples.
; It has now been found that the formation of ketal in the 3 position is particularly favourable if the 3,17-diketone is reacted with ethane dithiol-(1,2~.
The present invention thus is a development of the process of applicantscopending Application No.263,032 for producing ~15-steroids having the general formula I by R -alkinylation of compounds having the general formula II, in zzs9~

which ~ in formula II represent a keto group protected with ethane dithiol-(1,2) and that the carbon-carbon double bond ~s in the 4, 5-position.
a The advantages of the process o the present invention lie in that the 3,3-dithio~thylene ketal is formed in almost ~ quantitative yields and that a compound with a stable protec-¦ tive group is formed which can be easily split off again after ; the R -~lkinylation.
In tne protection of the 3-keto group with ethane dithiol-(1,2) according to the invention a homogenous compouna having a 4-en structure is formed. This compound can be puri-fied in a simple manner by crystallization. In the process of the copending application a substance mixture having 5(6)- and 5(10)-en structure in formed by protection of the 3-keto group with 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-propane diol. This substance mixture must be purified by chromatography.
' According to "Synthesis" 1974, page 32 the thioketal is formed in polar solvents, as for example, in a lower alcohol, particularly methanol, or in a lower carboxylic acid, particul-, arly glacial acetic-acid, in the presence of an acid, catalyst, as for example, boron trifluorid~ etherate, at temperatures of approximately o to 50C.
! According to "Tetrahedron letters" 1972, page 1989 the thioketal is split with methyl iodide in an aqueous lower alcohol while adding calcium carbonate.
~ The process according to the invention is further described followed by the Examples:
Example 1 50.0 g of 15~-hydroxy-18-methyl~4-oestren-3,17-dione ~ 30 in 750 ml of methanol are mixed with 25 ml of ethane diol-(1,2)t and 10 ml of boron trifluoride etherate under argon at room temperature. A portion of the product crystallizes out wi~hin ~L:lZZ593L

an hour while the remaining substance is crystallized by cooling with ice/water. The crystallizate is filtered with suction, washed with waterr dried in vacuo and recrystallized from acetone/hexane. 54 0 g o~ 3,3-ethylene dithio-15a-hydroxy-18-methyl-4-oestren-17-one are obtained.
Melting point: 213.5C
Example 2 15 ml of methane sulphonyl chloride are slowly added dropwise to 14.6 g of 3,3-ethylene-dithio-15a-hydroxy-18-methyl-4-oestren-17-one in 75 ml of pyridine while cooling with ice and stirring. After 1.5 hours 75 ml of dimethyl formamide and 45 g of anhydrous sodium acetate are added. The mixtute is stirred for 28 hours at room temperature, whereupon it is put in ice/
water. The precipitated product is ~iltered with suction, dis-solved in acetic ester and dried over sodium sulphate. The solution is treated with active carbon. 12.1 g of 3,3-ethylene-dithio-18-methyl-4,15-oestradien-17-one are obtained. A sample recrystallized from acetone/hexane had a melting point of 215.8C.
Example 3 Acetylene is passed through an ice/water-cooled solution of 140 ml of butyl lithium (15% in hexane) in 450 ml of tetrahydrofuran, whereupon 12.1 g of 3,3-ethylene~dithio-18-methyl-4,15-oestradien-17-one in 450 ml of tetrahydrofuran are added dropwise, followed by stirring for 30 minutes at room ! . temperature. The solution is then carefully mixed with satur-! ated ammonium-chloride solution dilutedwith acetic ester, washed with water and dried over sodium sulphate. The crude product i5 purified in acetone with active carbon. 12.0 g of 17~-ethynyl-3,3-ethylene-dithio-18-methyl-4,15-oestradien-17~-ol are obtain-ed. A sample recrystallized from acetone/hexane has a melting point of 152.2C.

1122S9l Example 4 7.4 g of 17~ ethynyl-3r3 ethylene-dioxy-18-methyl-4, 15-oestradien-17~-ol in 200 ml of a 95~ aqueous methanol are stirred with 20 ml of methyl iodide and 3.5 g of calcium carbonate for 19 hours with reflux. The reaction mixture is concentrated in vacuo, the resiaue is dissolved in acetic ester, washed with water and dri~d over sodium sulphate. After chro-matographing the crude product on silica gel with 15 to 20~ of acetone/hexane 4.7 g of 17a-ethynyl-17~-hydroxy-18-methyl-4,15-oestradien-3-one having a melting point of 198C are obtained.
Example 5 320 ml of a 5% ethereal lithium-methyl solution are added dropwise to 65 ml of 1,2-dichloro-ethylene in 325 ml of ether at 0C while injecting argon. After 1 hour 28.2 g of 3.3-ethylene-dithio-18-methyl-4,15-oestradien-17-one in 700 ml of tetrahydrofuran are added, followed by stirring at room temper-ature. After 2.5 hours the solution is carefully mixed with saturated ammonium-chloride solution, diluted with acetic ester, washed with water and dried over sodium sulphate. After concen-trating in vacuo, 33.2 g of 3,3-ethylene-dithio-17~-chloro-ethynyl-18-methyl-4,15-oestradien-17~-ol are obtained a~ an oily product.
~]D = -115.2C
Example 6 33.2 g of 3.3-ethylene-dithio-17~-chloro-ethynyl-18-methyl-4,15-oestradien-17~-ol in 500 ml of 95% methanol are ` stirred with 70 ml of methyl iodide and 15 g of calcium carbon-ate for 22 hours with reflux. The reaction mixture is concen-, trated in vacuo, the residue is dissolved in acetic ester, ! 30 washed with water and dried over sodium sulphate. After chroma tographing the crude product on silica gel with 13 to 15% of acetone/hexane 16.5 g of 17~-chloro-ethynyl-17~-hydroxy-18-~ Z59~

methyl-4,15-oestradien-3-one having a melting poin~ of 155C
are obtained.
Example 7 Methyl acetylene is passed through an ice-water-cooled solution of 50 ml of n-butyl lithium (15~ in hexane~ in 100 ml of tetrahydrofuran for 30 minutes. After stirring and injecting argon 2.0 g of 3;3-ethylene-dithio-18-methyl-4,15-oestradien-17-one in 20 ml of tetrahydrofuran are added. After 1.5 hours the solution is carefully mixed with a saturated ammonium-chloride io solution, diluted with acetic ester, washed with water until neutral and dried over sodium sulphate. The crude product is chromatographed on silica gel. With 10% of acetone in hexane 1.9 g of 3,3-ethylene-dithio-18-methyl-17a-propyn-1-yl-4,15-oestradien-17~-ol are extracted as an oily product.
[a]D = -66C
Example 8 1.0 g of 3,3-ethylene-dithio-18-methyl-17a-propyn-1-yl-4,15-oestradien-17~-ol in 40 ml of 95~ aqueous methanol are reacted with methyl iodide and calcium carbonate and further treated analogously to example 6. After recrystallizing the crude product from acetone/isopropyl ether 320 mg of 17~-hydroxy-18 -methyl-17a-propyn-1-yl-4,15-oestradien-3-one having a melt-ing point of 82C are obtained.

Claims (9)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. In a process for the production of a .DELTA.15-steroid, having the general formula I

(I) wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a trialkyl silyl group or an acyl group and R2 represents an ethynyl group, a chloro-ethynyl group or a propynyl group, which comprises introducing the R2 group into the 17.alpha. position of a 17-oxo steroid having the general formula II

(II) wherein Y represents a ketalised keto group and one of the ---bonds in the 4, 5-, 5, 6- or 7, 10- position is a carbon-carbon double bond and the others represent carbon-carbon single bonds and A-B represents a carbon-carbon double bond or the grouping , wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a silyl, acyl, sulphonyl or nitro group, the improvement in which Y
in formula II represents a keto group protected with ethane dithiol-(1,2) and the carbon-carbon double bond is in the 4,5-position.
2. A process as claimed in Claim 1, in which the protective group is split off by treatment with methyl iodide in an aqueous lower alcohol in the presence of calcium carbonate.
3. A process as claimed in Claim 1, in which the ketal is formed by reacting the compound of formula II in which Y is keto with ethane dithiol-(1,2) in a polar solvent in the presence of an acid catalyst at a temperature from 0 to 30°C.
4. A process as claimed in Claim 3, in which the solvent is methanol and the catalyst is boron trifluoride ether-ate.
5. A process as claimed in Claim 1, 2 or 3 in which the acyl group represented by R1 is derived from an organic car-boxylic or sulphonic acid containing 1 to 16 carbon atoms.
6. A process as claimed in Claim 1, in which the acyl group represented by R1 is derived from an organic carboxylic or sulphonic acid containing 1 to 11 carbon atoms
7. A process as claimed in Claim 6, in which the trialkylsilyl group represented by R1 is a trimethylsilyl group.
8. The process as claimed in Claim 1, 2 or 3 in which the agent reacted with the compound of formula II is an organo metal ethynyl, chlorethynyl or propynyl compound.
9. A process as claimed in Claim 1, 2 or 3, in which the ketalized compound of formula II is 3,3-ethylene-dithio-18-methyl-4,15-oestradien-17-one,
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DE2749105A DE2749105C2 (en) 1977-10-31 1977-10-31 Process for the preparation of Δ → 1 → → 5 → -17α-chloroethinyl and propynyl steroids of the estran series
DEP2749105.9 1977-10-31
DE2749104A DE2749104C2 (en) 1977-10-31 1977-10-31 Process for the preparation of?? 15? -Steroids
DEP2749104.9 1977-10-31

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