An efficient and environmentally benign chemical synthesis of testolactone

A comparative study of two approaches for the chemical synthesis of the biologically interesting steroid testolactone is described. The first approach is efficient but classical, in the second one, hazardous chemicals were replaced by benign alternatives maintaining the same degree of efficiency.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zinczuk Juan, Bacigaluppo José A., Colombo María I., Cravero Raquel M., González-Sierra Manuel, Rúveda Edmundo A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Química 2003-01-01
Series:Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-50532003000600013