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Aktivierung von Steroidsystemen zu alkylierenden Agenzien / Activation of Steroid Systems to Alkylating Agents

  • Manfred Wilk and Karlheinz Schmitt

Abstract

7-Dehydrocholesterol and ergosterol are oxidised by iodine and FeCl3 under "physiologically similar" conditions to highly reactive alkylating species. These can be trapped by nucleophiles, such as 1-methylimidazole.

The oxidation of the sterols to those alkylating species is discussed as a model-reaction for the first step in chemical carcinogenesis by endogene substrates.

Received: 1980-3-26
Revised: 1980-8-18
Published Online: 2014-6-2
Published in Print: 1981-2-1

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