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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 7.
Published in final edited form as: Tetrahedron Lett. 2010 Jul 7;51(27):3465–3469. doi: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2010.04.077

Figure 5.

Figure 5

(a) The 20 low-energy conformers of 17β-estradiol (E2). (b) The 20 low-energy conformers of 17α-estradiol. (c) The unsaturated B-ring half-chair showing trans coplanar diaxial orientations for H with H and for H8 with H9. (d) The C-ring chair with trans coplanar diaxial orientations for H11β with H9 and H12α as well as for H8 with H9 and H14. (e) The D-ring for 17β-estradiol (E2). (f) The D-ring for 17α-estradiol.