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IN the course of more extensive work on degradation of cholesterol, we have made a stereochemical correlation which seems to justify an interim report. 
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CORNFORTH, J., YOUHOTSKY, I. & POPJÁK, G. Absolute Configuration of Cholesterol. Nature 173, 536 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173536a0
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