Studies on steroids. Part XXIX. Synthesis of allenic analogues of fucosterol and desmosterol
Abstract
As potential specific inhibitors of sterol biosynthesis, two steroidal allenes, stigmasta-5,24(28),28-trien-3β-ol (6) and cholesta-5,23,24-trien-3β-ol (22), have been synthesized via a reductive SN2′ reaction(lithium aluminium hydride–aluminium chloride) of the corresponding αβ-acetylenic alcohols.