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Oxidative functionalization of the 19-angular methyl group of pregna-D6′-pentarane with its subsequent removal gave 16α,17α-cyclohexano-19-norprogesterone.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1636–1638, July, 1990.
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Levina, I.S., Kamernitskii, A.V. & Kulikova, L.E. Transformed steroids. 181. Synthesis of 16α,17α-cyclohexano-19-norprogesterone. Russ Chem Bull 39, 1486–1488 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00957866
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