“…The examples involving a 5-membered heterocyclic ring embrace steroidal [3,2-b]-pyrroles (Orr & Bowers, 1962), [16,17-b]-pyrroles (Mueller & Jiu, 1961), [3,2-b]-and [3,4-b]-indoles (Doorenbos & Wu, 1962), [3,4-c]-pyrazoles (Clinton & others, 1961(Clinton & others, , 1962, [17,16-c] (Hassner & Haddadin, 1962a). Those involving a six-membered ring include [ 17,1641-pyridines (Ketcheson & Taurins, 1960, [3,2-d]-pyrimidines (de Ruggieri & others, 1962a;de Ruggieri & others, 1963c;Smith, Teller & Foell, 1963 ;Zderic & others, 1963), [17,16-d (Hassner & Haddadin, 1962b), the preparation of this last group as potential anti-tumour agents being inspired by earlier reports (Buu-Hoi & Cagniant, 1944) of haemolytic properties in quinolino-steroids. An example involving a seven-membered ring is afforded by an androsteno [17,16-e]-l,Zdiazepin-4-0ne (Moore & Pandya, 1964).…”