A. Kasal et al., ON STEROIDS .366. PREPARATION OF UNLABELED AND [H-3] LABELED EPITESTOSTERONE AND ITS METABOLITES, Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, 58(3), 1993, pp. 600-611
Cold as well as [H-3]-labelled substrates and metabolites IX - XI, XV,
XVI, XX - XXII, XXIV, XXV and XXVIII were prepared by catalytic hydro
genation of epitestosterone (VIII) and LAMBDA1-dehydroepitestosterone
(XIII). The key step in the preparation of compound XXVIII was reactio
n of 3beta-tosylates XXVI and XXX with potassium nitrite in dimethyl s
ulfoxide.