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Mestranol, structure

The oral contraceptive agent Mestranol is synthesized using a carbonyl addition reaction like that shown in Problem 8.42. Draw the structure of the ketone needed. [Pg.287]

Estradiol is one of the main female sexual hormones it is also the structural backbone for the engineering of some synthetic estrogens, such as ethynyl estradiol or mestranol, used in human hormone treatments. Both natural and synthetic estrogens are classified as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).6,362 Many of these substances and their metabolites end up in the environment where... [Pg.166]

The estrogenic component of the oral contraceptive agents is almost exclusively ethynylestradiol or mestranol, while currently available progestational steroids are either progesterone derivatives, containing the typical C21 structure, or 19-nortestosterone derivatives. Removal of the C19 methyl group of testosterone and introduction of the... [Pg.750]

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See also in sourсe #XX -- [ Pg.287 ]

See also in sourсe #XX -- [ Pg.302 ]



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