Am. Turuta et al., TRANSFORMATION OF 5-ALPHA-H-PREGN-16-EN-3-BETA-OL-20-ONE INTO N-4-ENE-9-ALPHA,16-ALPHA,17-ALPHA-TRIOL-3,20-DIONE 16,17-ACETONIDE, Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, 41(8), 1992, pp. 1482-1484
A preparative method was proposed for the preparation of regn-4-ene-9a
lpha,16alpha,17alpha-triol-3,20-dione 16alpha,17alpha-acetonide (2) fr
om 5alpha-H-pregn-16-en-3beta-ol-20-one (1). The kev stage in the prop
osed sequence of the reactions is the microbiological 9alpha-hydroxyla
tion and introduction of the 4-en-3-one grouping into the molecule of
1 by R- and S-dissociative forms of the Rhodococcus sp. strain.