Show how you would carry out the following transformation in which the ester function at the lower

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Show how you would carry out the following transformation in which the ester function at the lower left of the molecule is converted into a hydroxy group but that at the upper right is preserved. (Do not try ester hydrolysis. Look carefully at how the ester groups are linked to the steroid and consider an approach based on transesterification.) 

CH; OCH3 CH3 OCH3 CH3 CH3 CH, CH3 H3C НО

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Organic Chemistry structure and function

ISBN: 978-1429204941

6th edition

Authors: K. Peter C. Vollhardt, Neil E. Schore

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