Several years a. go Wilds and Beck3 developed a method for synthesizing the unsaturated ketone I and its reduction product 16-equilenone (11). The present paper describes the extension of this synthesis to coimpounds having a 3-hydroxyl group, leading to the phenolic ketone IV, which is a structural isomer of the female sex hormone equi-
![4-(6-methoxy-[1]naphthyl)-2-methyl-butyric acid Structure](https://image.chemsrc.com/caspic/206/28901-20-4.png)
