Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Cortodoxone also known as cortexolone or 11-deoxycortisol is a steroid that can be oxygenated to cortisol (hydrocortisone). It was first synthesized by Tadeusz Reichstein.On April 5 1952 biochemist Durey Peterson and microbiologist Herbert Murray at Upjohn published the first report of a breakthrough fermentation process for the microbial 11α-oxygenation of steroids (e.g.
