The oxidation of some steroidal dienes and trienes with chromic acid


Hanson J., KIRAN İ.

JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH-S, no.10, pp.594-598, 1999 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Publication Date: 1999
  • Doi Number: 10.1039/a904215f
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH-S
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.594-598
  • Eskisehir Osmangazi University Affiliated: No

Abstract

The chromic acid oxidation of steroidal 2,4- and 3,5-dienes and 2,4,6-trienes is shown to take place at the secondary termini of the alkenes rather than at the allylic positions and is rationalized in terms of a sequence of 1:4-additions of chromic acid.