K. Roy et al., STUDIES ON KETENE DITHIOACETALIZATION AND HYPERVALENT IODINE OXIDATION OF LUPENONE, Indian journal of chemistry. Sect. B: organic chemistry, including medical chemistry, 37(8), 1998, pp. 774-777
Ketene dithioacetalization at the activated C-2 centre of triterpenic
lupenone 2 has been carried out successfully to yield alpha-oxoketened
ithioacetal derivative 3. Compound 3 on ring closure reactions with gu
anidine hydrochloride and hydrazine hydrate famished respectively the
pyrimidine and pyrazole annealed heterocycles 4-6 of lupenone. Unlike
these reactions hypervalent iodine oxidation of lupenone using Koser r
eagent [PhI(OH)OTs] gave various oxidised products 8-11 and did not sh
ow any regiospecificity.