Rp. Litvinovskaya et al., SYNTHESIS AND STRUCTURE OF HYL-5-ALPHA-CHOLESTANE-3-BETA,5-ALPHA,22,24-TETROL, Mendeleev communications, (3), 1994, pp. 89-90
The title compound 1 has been synthesized for the first time from 20-i
soxazolinylsteroid 2 via 5alpha,6alpha-epoxide 3 whose stereochemistry
has been firmly established by an X-ray crystallographic analysis.