An NMR study of the conformational mobility of steroid estrogen 7α-methyl-8α analogues

Autor: Solov'ev AIu, A. G. Shavva, S. N. Morozkina, Stanislav I. Selivanov
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry. 33:302-309
ISSN: 1573-9163
1068-1620
DOI: 10.1134/s1068162007030053
Popis: All the signals in the 1H and 13C NMR spectra of some analogues of 7alpha-methyl-8alpha- and 6-oxa-8alpha-steroid estrogens were completely assigned. Considering the values of nuclear Overhauser effect and vicinal coupling constants, these steroids were shown to exhibit a fast, on the NMR time scale, conformational equilibrium arising due to the inversion of ring B. The conformer populations were obtained from a comparison of the experimental and theoretical values of the dihedral angles and the interproton distances. This conformational equilibrium was shown to depend on the nature of atom in position 6: for the 7alpha-methyl-6-oxa-8alpha analogues of the steroid estrogens, the population of the conformer with the pseudoaxial orientation of the 7alpha-methyl group was observed to be decreased compared with the 7alpha-methyl-8alpha analogue.
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