Steroid research at Syntex: &quot;the pill&quot; and cortisone

Djerassi, C.; Djerassi, C

doi:10.1016/0039-128x(92)90016-3

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Steroid research at Syntex: "the pill" and cortisone

Djerassi, C.

Steroids 57(12): 631-641

1992

ISSN/ISBN: 0039-128X

PMID: 1481227

DOI: 10.1016/0039-128x(92)90016-3

Document Number: 330110

The period from late 1949 through 1951 was an extraordinarily productive one in steroid chemistry and especially so at Syntex S.A. in Mexico City. Two of the most important Syntex contributions—the synthesis of 19-nor-17-ethynyltestosterone (norethindrone) and of cortisone from diosgenin—are described from a historical perspective.