The stereochemical course of substitution at sulphur in a sulphite diester
Abstract
A single diastereoisomer of phenyl epiandrosterone sulphite and the single diastereoisomer of benzyl epiandrosterone sulphite derived from it by nucleophilic substitution with benzyl alcohol have both been shown by X-ray crystallographic analysis to have the Rs configuration and hence the reaction proceeds with inversion at sulphur.