Water → 13beta-Ethyl-17beta-(undec-10-enoyloxy)-gon-4-en-3-one

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Reaction Steps

Add undec-10-enoyl chloride (2 g.) in benzene (6 cc.) to 13β-ethyl-17β-hydroxy-gon-4-en-3-one (2 g.) in pyridine (6 cc.) at -15°. Keep the mixture at -10° for 17 hours, add to water and extract with benzene. Wash, dry and evaporate the extracts and recrystallize the residue from methanol to obtain the title compound, m.p. 87°-88°; ultraviolet absorption peak at 240 mμ (ε17,000); infrared absorption peaks at 5.79, 6.00, 6.20 μ.

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