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The influence of the activity of the zinc dust on the reductive cleavage of the oxide ring of 6β,19-epoxysteroids has been studied. An unusual ease of conversion of 19-hydroxyandrost-5-ene-3,17-dione into the cyclic ketal has been observed.
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S. Ordzhonikidze All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemicals. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 48–50, January–February, 1973.
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Grinenko, G.S., Bayunova, V.I. & Shuvalova, S.D. Some transformations of 19-oxygen-containing steroids. Chem Nat Compd 9, 41–42 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00580887
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