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We determined the conditions for opening the aziridine ring of the 16,17α-acetylepimines of 20-ketosteroids with thiocyanic acid and obtained the 17α-acetylamines of 20-ketopregnenes that contain the thiocyanato and thiol functions in position 16.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1132–1136, May, 1976.
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Kamernitskii, A.V., Turuta, A.M. & Fadeeva, T.M. Transformed steroids. Russ Chem Bull 25, 1101–1105 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00922001
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