Sterol metabolism. XLIII. The oxidation
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Jon I. Teng; Chow-Eng Low; Leland L. Smith
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Article
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1978
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The photosemitized oxidation of cholest-4-en-3#-ol in which singlet molecular oxygen is implicated yielded eholut4-en-3-one and the isomeric epoxides 4~,5-epoxy-5~-cholestan-3-one and 4#,5-epoxy-50-cholestan-3-one, the epoxides being formed in the ratio 3 : 1. Oxidation of cholest4~n-3-one by alkali