α-Formylaminoacrylic esters, produced by the condensation of ethyl isocyanoacetate with 17-oxo-steroids, have been reduced selectively to give the corresponding alcohols; the latter gave, in high yield, the hydroxyacetyl side-chain on acidic hydrolysis or the dihydroxy-acetone side-chain after appropriate oxidation and hydrolysis.
L. Nédélec, V. Torelli and M. Hardy, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1981, 775 DOI: 10.1039/C39810000775
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