Microbial hydroxylation of steroids. 6. Hydroxylation of C-6-substituted androst-4-ene-3,17-diones by Rhizopusarrhizus ATCC 11145
The products arising from the incubations of C-6α and C-6β chloro-, fluoro-, and methyl-substituted Δ4-3-keto steroids with the C-6β hydroxylating fungus Rhizopusarrhizus ATCC 11145 have been identified, and their formation rationalised in terms of Δ3,5 enolic intermediates. The incubations of C-6 chloro and methyl Δ3,5 enol acetates with R. arrhizus, and the oxidations by m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid of the corresponding enol ethyl ethers have also been described. The relevance of the results so obtained to the mechanism of C-6β hydroxylation of Δ4-3-keto steroids by R. arrhizus is discussed.
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