It was recently shown that various steroid alcohols could react with lead tetraacetate in non-polar solvents to give tetrahydrofuran and tetrahydropyran derivatives. cyclization occurring when the position of and the distance between the reacting hydroxyl group and the 8 - or d -methyl, methylene or methine group were favourable to ring closure
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