Chapter 31: Q18P. (page 1256)
Convert each ball-and-stick model to a skeletal structure that clearly shows the stereochemistry at the ring fusion of these decalin derivatives.
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Chapter 31: Q18P. (page 1256)
Convert each ball-and-stick model to a skeletal structure that clearly shows the stereochemistry at the ring fusion of these decalin derivatives.
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B.

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(a) Draw a skeletal structure of the anabolic steroid 4-androstene-3, 17-dione, also called 鈥渁ndro,鈥 from the following description. Andro contains the tetracyclic steroid with carbonyl groups at C3 and C17, a double bond between C4 and C5, and methyl groups bonded to C10 and C13.
(b) Add wedges and dashed wedges for all stereogenic centers with the following information: the configuration at C10 is R, the configuration at C13 is S, and all substituents at ring fusions are trans to each other.
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