“…The one-step dihydroxylation is much more simple and straightforward than the two-step procedure reported by Kihira and Hoshita (13) and Kihira and others (20,21), in which epoxidation of the 22-ene and its methyl ester, the stereochemical configuration of the ⌬ 22 -double bond as an E-form was determined on the basis of a large coupling constant ( J, 15-16 Hz) arising from a doublet signal of the 23-H in the 1 H-NMR (13,22) and of characteristic olefinic carbon signal pairs appearing at 911ف and 155 ppm, respectively assigned to C-23 and C-22, in the 13 C-NMR (4,11).…”