Reduction of testosterone, androstendion
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Jadwiga Dmochowska-Gladysz; Teresa Kolek; Prof. Dr. Antoni SiewiΕski
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Article
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1989
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A strain of Aphanocladium album reduces the C-3 carbonyl group in testosterone or androstendione to to 3%-ally1 alcohol. In some derivatives of these steroids the same carbonyl group is reduced to allyl alcohol with stereospecificity, depending on whether chlorine at C-4 or a 17a-methyl group is pre