“…possessing a 13,14-seco-16,24-cycloergostane skeleton (Matsuura, Kawai, Nakashima & Butsugan, 1970). The structure of (I) is based on the X-ray analysis of a bromine-containing derivative of (I) (Kawai, Matsuura, Taga & Osaki, 1970). Reinvestigation of the acid-induced dehydration products of (I) using ~H and ~3C NMR spectroscopy, however, revealed that one of the products, (II), does not maintain the original carbon skeleton (Kawai, Ogura, Butsugan, Taga & Hayashi, 1991).…”