A radical prototype to steroids: Synthesis of d,l-5α-D-homoandrostane-4α-methyl-3,17α-dione

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 44, 1996, Pages 7909-7912

  Zoretic, Phillip A ^a   Chen, Zhiyue ^a   Zhang, Yongzheng ^a   Ribeiro, Anthony A ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0030605050     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-4039(96)01793-5     Document Type: Article

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