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Transformed steroids. 114. Direction of opening oxide ring of 16,17α-epoxy-17β-phenylandrost-4-en-3-one

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Starting with androst-5-en-3β-ol-17-one, we synthesized 16,17α-epoxy-17β-phenylandrost-4-en-3-one. Cleavage of 17-C-O bond, adjacent to the phenyl ring, occurs during its nucleophilic opening, accompanied by 1,2-migration of the angular 18-CH3 group.

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See [1] for Communication 113.

Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1889–1893, August, 1980.

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Kamernitskii, A.V., Skorova, A.V. & Isakov, V.V. Transformed steroids. 114. Direction of opening oxide ring of 16,17α-epoxy-17β-phenylandrost-4-en-3-one. Russ Chem Bull 29, 1363–1366 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00950590

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