Sulfonation of Maternal Steroids is a Conserved Metabolic Pathway in Vertebrates
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Antirachitic sulfonation of some steroids.
A few sterols, some derivatives, and certain steroid materials have been transformed chemically, by heating with suitable reagents (l-4), to products having antirachitic activity. This activating reaction1 involves heating an appropriate substrate in acetic acid solution with an efficient sulfonating reagent under anhydrous conditions for a number of hours. At the termination of the reaction ti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Integrative and Comparative Biology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1540-7063,1557-7023
DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict027