%0 Journal Article %T Oxidative fragmentations of 5-hydroxy-1-oxo-5alpha-cholestan-3beta-yl acetate %A NATALIJA M. KRSTIC %A MIRA S. BJELAKOVIC %A LJUBINKA B. LORENC %A VLADIMIR D. PAVLOVIC %J Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society %D 2003 %I Serbian Chemical Society %X 5-Hydroxy-1-oxo-5a-cholestan-3b-yl acetate (11) was prepared in 5 steps starting from (E)-3b-acetoxy-5,10-seco-1(10)-cholesten-5-one (6). Treatment of the 1-oxo-5-hydroxy derivative 11 with lead tetraacetate (LTA) (under thermal or hypoiodite conditions) or with mercuric oxide/iodine (HgO/I2) reagent resulted in the oxidative b-fragmentation of the C(5) C(10) bond affording 1,5-dioxo-5,10-secocholest-10(19)-en-3b-yl acetate (12), in different yields, depending on the reagent. Also the stereochemistry of the 1b,6b-cyclization product 13, formed by transannular cyclization of the 1,5-diketone 12 on silica gel, is discussed in this work. %K 5-Hydroxy-1-oxo-5alpha-cholestan-3beta-yl acetate %K 1 %K 5-dioxo-5 %K 10-secocholest-10(19)-en-3beta-yl acetate %K beta-fragmentation %K transannular cyclization %U http://www.shd.org.yu/HtDocs/SHD/Vol68/No11/V68-No11-01.pdf