JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH-S, sa.9, ss.540-541, 1999 (SCI-Expanded)
Unlike other acidic systems, the tetracyanoethylene catalysed methanolysis of androstane 2,3-epoxides proceeds normally without giving products arising from the transannular participation of a 5 alpha,6 alpha-epoxide, a 5 alpha-hydroxy group or a 5(6)-ene.