Testosterone formate

Testosterone formate

Identifiers
IUPAC name [(8R,9S,10R,13S,14S,17S)-10,13-Dimethyl-3-oxo-1,2,6,7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16,17-dodecahydrocyclopenta[a]phenanthren-17-yl] formate
Synonyms	Testosterone carboxylate; Testosterone methanoate
CAS Number	3129-42-8
PubChem (CID)	151084
ChemSpider	133166
Chemical and physical data
Formula	C20H28O3
Molar mass	316.441 g/mol
3D model (Jmol)	Interactive image
SMILES C[C@]12CC[C@H]3[C@H]([C@@H]1CC[C@@H]2OC=O)CCC4=CC(=O)CC[C@]34C
InChI InChI=1S/C20H28O3/c1-19-9-7-14(22)11-13(19)3-4-15-16-5-6-18(23-12-21)20(16,2)10-8-17(15)19/h11-12,15-18H,3-10H2,1-2H3/t15-,16-,17-,18-,19-,20-/m0/s1 Key:LMUMOFOWZKACOU-RABCQHRBSA-N

Testosterone formate, also known as testosterone carboxylate or testosterone methanoate, as well as androst-4-en-17β-ol-3-one 17β-formate, is a synthetic, steroidal androgen and an androgen ester – specifically, the C17β formate ester of testosterone – which was first synthesized in the 1930s and was never marketed.^[1][2][3][4]

See also

• Testosterone acetate
• Testosterone butyrate
• Testosterone propionate

References

1. Samuel H. Yalkowsky; Yan He; Parijat Jain (19 April 2016). Handbook of Aqueous Solubility Data, Second Edition. CRC Press. pp. 1233–. ISBN 978-1-4398-0246-5.
2. R T Blickenstaff (2 December 2012). Antitumor Steroids. Academic Press. pp. 76–. ISBN 978-0-323-13916-8.
3. Edith Josephy; F. Radt (1 December 2013). Elsevier’s Encyclopaedia of Organic Chemistry: Series III: Carboisocyclic Condensed Compounds. Springer. pp. 3019–. ISBN 978-3-662-25863-7.
4. Koch, F. C. (1937). "RECENT ADVANCES IN THE FIELD OF ANDROGENS". Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 5 (0): 34–43. doi:10.1101/SQB.1937.005.01.004. ISSN 0091-7451.