Ebook: Steroid Reactions. An Outline for Organic Cliemists

San Francisco: Holden-Day, Inc., 1963. – 93 p.The protection of carbonyl and hydroxyl groups
Selective oxidations of polyhydroxy steroids and non-catalytic selective reductions of polycarbonyl steroids
Introduction of fluorine into the steroid system
Preparation and dehydrohalogenation of α-bromo, α-chloro and α-iodo ketosteroids
The introduction of double bonds
The birch reduction and the partial synthesis of 19-nor-steroids
Metal ammonia reductions of steroidal enones, saturated ketones and ketols
Recent applications of photolytic and related preparative methods in the steroid field
Selective aromatizations of steroids
Conversion of 20-ketosteroids to 17-ketosteroids
Ring contraction of steroids
Insertion of hetero atoms into the steroid nucleus
Preparation of steroidal α-hydroxy and α-acetoxy ketones
Formation and reactions of epoxides and episulfides