Efficient synthesis of the corticosteroid side-chain from 17-ketones
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 15,p. 774-775
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39810000774
Abstract
Steroidal 17-ketones react smoothly with diethyl α-isocyanoethyl phosphonate to give, after suitable oxidative and hydrolytic reactions, the dihydroxy-acetone side-chain of corticosteroids in high yield.Keywords
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