Novel microbial transformations of androst-4-ene-3,17-dione by a Mucor sp.
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 18,p. 1030-1031
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39830001030
Abstract
An efficient reduction of the 17-carbonyl group in a steriod skeleton to a methylene group has been observed for the first time during the microbial conversion of androst-4-ene-3,17-dione (1) and 14α-hydroxyandrost-4-ene-3,17-dione (2) into 6,14α-dihydroxyandrost-4-ene-3-one (3).Keywords
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