Bolasterone

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Bolasterone (INNTooltip International Nonproprietary Name, USANTooltip United States Adopted Name) (brand names Myagen, Methosarb; former developmental code name U-19763), also known as 7α,17α-dimethyltestosterone, is a 17α-alkylated androgen/anabolic steroid (AAS) which is used in veterinary medicine.[2][3] It has close structural similarity to testosterone, and like methyltestosterone has a methyl group at C17α in order to increase oral bioavailability.[2] In addition, it is also 7α-methylated, similar to its 7β-methylated isomer calusterone.[2] The medication has a low to moderate ratio of anabolic to androgenic activity, similar to that of fluoxymesterone.[4]

Trade namesMyagen, Methosarb
Other namesU-19763; NSC-66233; 7α,17α-Dimethyltestosterone; 7α,17α-Dimethylandrost-4-en-17β-ol-3-one, Piratestosterone.
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Bolasterone
Clinical data
Trade namesMyagen, Methosarb
Other namesU-19763; NSC-66233; 7α,17α-Dimethyltestosterone; 7α,17α-Dimethylandrost-4-en-17β-ol-3-one, Piratestosterone.
Routes of
administration
By mouth
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Identifiers
  • (7R,8R,9S,10R,13S,14S,17S)-17-hydroxy-7,10,13,17-tetramethyl-2,6,7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16-decahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-one
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ECHA InfoCard100.015.018 Edit this at Wikidata
Chemical and physical data
FormulaC21H32O2
Molar mass316.485 g·mol−1
3D model (JSmol)
  • O=C4\C=C3/[C@]([C@H]2CC[C@]1([C@@H](CC[C@@]1(O)C)[C@@H]2[C@H](C)C3)C)(C)CC4
  • InChI=1S/C21H32O2/c1-13-11-14-12-15(22)5-8-19(14,2)16-6-9-20(3)17(18(13)16)7-10-21(20,4)23/h12-13,16-18,23H,5-11H2,1-4H3/t13-,16+,17+,18-,19+,20+,21+/m1/s1
  • Key:IVFYLRMMHVYGJH-VLOLGRDOSA-N
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Bolasterone is on the World Anti-Doping Agency's list of prohibited substances,[5] and is therefore banned from use in most major sports.

Chemistry

Synthesis

The chemical synthesis was reported:[6] Patent:[7]

The oxidation of methyltestosterone [58-18-4] (1) with chloranil gives 17alpha-methyl-6,7-dehydrotestosterone [5585-85-3] (2). The conjugate addition of methylmagnesium bromide in the presence of a catalytic amount of cuprous iodide (c.f. Gilman reagent) gives a mixture of bolasterone and calusterone, with the former predominating.

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