Not to be confused with pregnenolone or pregneninolone.

A pregnenedione (singular pregnanediol) is an unsaturated diketone derivative of a pregnane.[1]

Examples are budesonide and progesterone (pregn-4-ene-3,20-dione).[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Pregnenediones at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
  2. ^ Bratoeff, Eugene; Ramírez, Elena; Flores, Eugenio; Valencia, Norma; Sánchez, Mauricio; Heuze, Ivonne; Cabeza, Marisa (October 2003). "Molecular interactions of new pregnenedione derivatives". Chemical & Pharmaceutical Bulletin. 51 (10): 1132–1136. doi:10.1248/cpb.51.1132. ISSN 0009-2363. PMID 14519916.
  3. ^ Bratoeff, Eugene; Ramírez, Elena; Flores, Eugenio; Valencia, Norma; Sánchez, Mauricio; Heuze, Ivonne; Cabeza, Marisa (2003). "Molecular Interactions of New Pregnenedione Derivatives". Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin. 51 (10): 1132–1136. doi:10.1248/cpb.51.1132. PMID 14519916.



source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnenedione