Synthesis of digitoxigenin from 3β-acetoxyandrost-5-en-17-one involving palladium induced rearrangement of an allylic epoxide
Abstract
A synthesis of digitoxigenin (1) from 3β-acetoxyandrost-5-en-17-one (2) has been developed in which the key step involved a rearrangement of the allylic expoxide (8) to the butanolide (9) induced by tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)palladium (0).