• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.30 no.10
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• pp.2398-2402
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• 2009

Ten steroidal compounds as impurities in canrenone were isolated from the enriched mother liquor by using various chromatographic methods. Their structures were elucidated by spectrometric analysis, among which three new compounds were characterized as 3-(3-oxo-7$\alpha$-(ethoxycarbonyl)methyl-17$\beta$-hydroxy-4-androsten-17$\alpha$-yl) propionic acid $\gamma$-lactone (1), 3-(3-oxo-7$\alpha$-ethoxy-17$\beta$-hydroxy-4-androsten-17$\alpha$-yl) propionic acid $\gamma$-lactone (2) and 3-(3-oxo- 5$\beta$-propionic acid-$\gamma$-lactone-6$\beta$,17$\beta$-hydroxy-4-androstan-17$\alpha$-yl) propionic acid $\gamma$-lactone (3).