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Hydrocortisone does not contain any functional group, which is susceptible to hydrolytic degradation. Thus hydrolytic stability is to be expected. This is experimentally supported by the results of a experimental hydrolysis study with 21 -hydroxy-16 alpha-methyl-4 -pregnene-3,20 -dione, which differs in missing hydroxy groups in positions 11 and 17 an additional methyl group position 16, which was found to be hydrolytically stable in the pH region 4 to 9 (at 25 °C).


The same behaviour is to be expected for hydrocortisone.