Synthesis of New Steroidal Carbamates with Plant-Growth-Promoting Activity: Theoretical and Experimental Evidence.

ABSTRACT: A priority of modern agriculture is to use novel and environmentally friendly plant-growth promoter compounds to increase crop yields and avoid the indiscriminate use of synthetic fertilizers. Brassinosteroids are directly involved in the growth and development of plants and are considered attractive candidates to solve this problem. Obtaining these metabolites from their natural sources is expensive and cumbersome since they occur in extremely low concentrations in plants. For this reason, much effort has been dedicated in the last decades to synthesize brassinosteroids analogs. In this manuscript, we present the synthesis and characterization of seven steroidal carbamates starting from stigmasterol, β-sitosterol, diosgenin and several oxygenated derivatives of it. The synthesis route for

SUBMITTER: Pacheco DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7956523 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature