Octanoic Acid → HCID 10573853, compound

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In a study of the degradation of a number of sapogenins at the Glaxo Laboratorties in UK, good results were obtained by heating diosgenin in refluxing n-Octanoic acid (bp 237° C.) containing acetic anhydride, distilling off the low boiling fraction until the temperature reached 270° C. and refluxing for 2 hours followed by saponifications resulting in the production of pseudodiosgenin in a yield of 87% (Ref:Cameroon AFB, Evans RM, Hamlet JC, Hunt JS, Jones PG and Long AG, J Chem Soc, 2807 1955.)

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