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DOI: 10.1039/A905508H (Paper) Reference Section for: J. Chem. Res. (S), 1999, 662-663

A Facile Synthesis of Symmetrical Dimeric Steroid-pyrazines

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Zenon Łotowski, Agnieszka Gryszkiewicz, Jolanta B. Borowiecka, Agnieszka Nikitiuk and Jacek W. Morzycki

Abstract

The reaction of steroidal 2α-bromo-3-ketones (e.g. 2α-bromocholestan-3-one 2) with ammonia followed by hydrolysis and air-oxidation affords the easily separable mixture of the trans and cis dimeric steroid-pyrazines (3 and 4, respectively).

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