Chemistry in Everyday Life ANTI FERTILITY DRUGS

[Audio] The population in india grows at an alarming rate every year. We may soon overtake china to become the world's number one populous country. Anti fertility drugs help in controlling birth and thus enable efficient family planning . They are very important and are to be known..

[Audio] Birth control pills essentially contain a mixture of synthetic oestrogen and progesterone derivatives Both of these compounds are hormones Progesterone suppresses ovulation Synthetic progesterone derivatives are more potent than progesterone Norethindrone is an example of synthetic progesterone derivative most widely used in antifertility drugs The oestrogen derivative which is used in combination with the progesterone derivative is ethynylestradiol or Novestrol.

[Audio] These are the structures of northindrone and novestrol. Northeindrone has 6 chiral carbon atoms and novestrol has 5 chiral carbon atoms . Both have four six membered rings..