Mass spectrometric investigation of transformed steroids and related compounds

Conclusions The basic pathways of the decomposition of certain polyhydroxyketones of the pregene series and their partially acetylated derivatives under electron impact were elucidated, and the principles relating the nature of the mass spectrum to the configuration of the substituents in the D ring were found.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp. 2510–2515, November, 1973.