JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH-S, sa.3, ss.198-202, 1999 (SCI-Expanded)
The epoxidation of some androsta-4,6-dienes with m-chloroperbenzoic acid has been shown to give the 4 beta, 5 beta; 6 alpha,7 alpha-diepoxides, the stereochemistry can be rationalized in terms of the directing effect of one epoxide on the facial selectivity of the second epoxidation.