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THE need for improving the reactions whereby steroidal sapogenins, now in abundant supply, are transformed into pregnane derivatives has recently been re-emphasized1. Earlier publications have dealt definitively with the entire sequence, so that the original Marker procedure has now been improved at each stage2.
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MUELLER, G. Degradation of Steroidal Sapogenins to 16-Dehydropregnan-20-ones. Nature 181, 771 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181771a0
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