Abstract: | In addition to known ecdysteroids (2-deoxy--ecdysone and 2-deoxyecdysterone) fromSilene praemixta (Caryophyllaceae) we have isolated new ones — premixisterone and selenosterone (I), C27H42O7, mp 115–117°C (from MeOH), []D28 +86.9 ± 2° (c 0.92, MeOH), yield 0.003%. The acetylation of (I) with (CH3CO)2O in Py gave 22-acetyl-selenosterone (II), C29H44O6, mp 210–212°C (MeOH-C6H14), []D27 +45.5 ± 3° (c 0.16; MeOH). On the basis of physiocochemical and spectral characteristics it has been established that (I) has the structure of 14,22R,25-trihydroxy-5-cholest-7-ene-3,6-dione. The IR, PMR, and mass spectra of (I) and (II) are presented.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 793–797, November–December, 1979. |