Journal of the American Chemical Society

The Synthesis of 3-Hydroxy-16-equilenone, a Structural Isomer of Equilenin1

AL Wilds, WJ Close

Index: Wilds; Close Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1947 , vol. 69, p. 3079,3081

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Abstract

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-