Author's Organization:Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hiroshima University School of Medicine Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hiroshima University School of Medicine
The configuration at C-23 in 5β-cholestane-3α, 7α, 12α, 23-tetrol, one of the bile alcohols isolated from the bile and feces of patients with cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, has been determined by X-ray crystallography to be 23R.