Disclosed are a polyene compound, preparation method and use thereof. Provided in the present invention is the preparation method of a polyene compound I, comprising the following steps: under an action of a base and in an organic solvent, conducting a Witting reaction on a compound II and a compound III to obtain the polyene compound I. By the preparation method in the present invention, a coupling reaction results in good product purity without producing an obvious by-product and involves no heavy metal, thus facilitating a control over product quality and costs, having a simple operation and mild reaction condition, enabling high reaction conversion, a high yield, few by-products, high resultant product purity, low production costs and simple post-processing, and being suitable for industrial production.

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Disclosed are a polyene compound, preparation method and use thereof. Provided in the present invention is the preparation method of a polyene compound I, comprising the following steps: under an action of a base and in an organic solvent, conducting a Witting reaction on a compound II and a compound III to obtain the polyene compound I. By the preparation method in the present invention, a coupling reaction results in good product purity without producing an obvious by-product and involves no heavy metal, thus facilitating a control over product quality and costs, having a simple operation and mild reaction condition, enabling high reaction conversion, a high yield, few by-products, high resultant product purity, low production costs and simple post-processing, and being suitable for industrial production.

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Novel intermediates for the complete synthesis of vitamin D are provided that allow a great versatility of functional groups in the final vitamin derivatives. Vitamin derivatives that are epimeric in position 3 and vitamin derivatives with a wide range of functionalities in position 18, including compounds with isotopic labelling are provided.

Novel intermediates for the complete synthesis of vitamin D are provided that allow a great versatility of functional groups in the final vitamin derivatives. Vitamin derivatives that are epimeric in position 3 and vitamin derivatives with a wide range of functionalities in position 18, including compounds with isotopic labelling are provided.

Disclosed are a polyene compound, preparation method and use thereof. Provided in the present invention is the preparation method of a polyene compound I, comprising the following steps: under an action of a base and in an organic solvent, conducting a Witting reaction on a compound II and a compound III to obtain the polyene compound I. By the preparation method in the present invention, a coupling reaction results in good product purity without producing an obvious by-product and involves no heavy metal, thus facilitating a control over product quality and costs, having a simple operation and mild reaction condition, enabling high reaction conversion, a high yield, few by-products, high resultant product purity, low production costs and simple post-processing, and being suitable for industrial production. ##STR00001##

Disclosed are a polyene compound, preparation method and use thereof. Provided in the present invention is the preparation method of a polyene compound I, comprising the following steps: under an action of a base and in an organic solvent, conducting a Witting reaction on a compound II and a compound III to obtain the polyene compound I. By the preparation method in the present invention, a coupling reaction results in good product purity without producing an obvious by-product and involves no heavy metal, thus facilitating a control over product quality and costs, having a simple operation and mild reaction condition, enabling high reaction conversion, a high yield, few by-products, high resultant product purity, low production costs and simple post-processing, and being suitable for industrial production. ##STR00001##

This present disclosure is directed to novel prodrugs of activated vitamin D.sub.3 compounds. The prodrugs can be designed to have one or more beneficial properties, such as selective inhibition of the enzyme CYP24, low calcemic activity, and anti-proliferative activity. Specifically, these prodrugs are 1-deoxy prohormones of active Vitamin D analogs, e.g. analogs of calcitriol. This disclosure is also directed to pharmaceutical and diagnostic compositions containing the prodrugs of the invention, and to their medical use, particularly as prodrugs in the treatment and/or prevention of diseases.

This present disclosure is directed to novel prodrugs of activated vitamin D.sub.3 compounds. The prodrugs can be designed to have one or more beneficial properties, such as selective inhibition of the enzyme CYP24, low calcemic activity, and anti-proliferative activity. Specifically, these prodrugs are 1-deoxy prohormones of active Vitamin D analogs, e.g. analogs of calcitriol. This disclosure is also directed to pharmaceutical and diagnostic compositions containing the prodrugs of the invention, and to their medical use, particularly as prodrugs in the treatment and/or prevention of diseases.

The present disclosure relates to stereodefined polycyclic (e.g., tetracyclic) compounds that contain quaternary centers at one or multiple ring fusions, synthetic methods for preparing such compounds, and methods of using such compounds to treat a disease, such as a brain tumor and, particularly, a glioma.

Methods include determining an amount of an epimeric vitamin D analyte in a sample suspected of containing the epimeric vitamin D analyte. A combination is provided in an assay medium that includes the sample and a vitamin D epimer antibody that is specific for the epimeric vitamin D analyte. The assay medium is incubated under conditions for binding of the vitamin D epimer antibody to the epimeric vitamin D analyte to form an epimeric vitamin D antibody-bound complex. The amount of the epimeric vitamin D antibody-bound complex is determined and related to the amount of epimeric vitamin D analyte in the sample.