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Transformed steroids

Communication 125. One-stage synthesis of 16α, 17α-cyclohexanonopregnanes at atmospheric and high pressure

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The diene condensation of 16-dehydropregnenolone acetate with 2-trimethylsilyloxy-1,3-butadiene proceeds stereospecifically at high pressure with high regioselectivity, and in the presence of Lewis acids, stereo- and regiospecifically, leading to 16α,17α-cyclohexanonopregnanes.

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1399–1401, June, 1982.

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Levina, I.S., Kulikova, L.E. & Él'yanov, B.S. Transformed steroids. Russ Chem Bull 31, 1247–1249 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00955990

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