Decarboxylation and Cyclization Reactions of Some Pimelic Acid Derivatives

RL Frank, JB McPherson

Index: Frank; McPherson Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1949 , vol. 71, p. 1387,1390

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Abstract

Summary A synthetic scheme involving the Stobbe condensation, previously developed for the production of steroid-like structures from l-keto-1, 2, 3, 4-tetrahydrophenanthrene, has now been applied with some modifications to the 2-methyl derivative to give a homolog containing the 13-angular methyl group. The product, 14, 15-dehydro-17-equile-none, is the precursor of 0-17-equilenone (3-desoxyequilenin).