Optical rotatory dispersion and circular dichroism. Part LXXX. Circular dichroism of the ethylidenecyclohexane system
Abstract
The isomeric (Z)- and (E)-3-ethylidene-5α-cholestanes have been synthesized, and their c.d. curves determined. The chiral unit of structure represented by a conformationally rigid ethylidenecyclohexane unit (XIVa or b) makes a major contribution to the c.d. of these and some other olefinic steroids.