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Cholesterol derivatives containing a benzocrown ether moiety or an azobenzene moiety coupled to C-3 of a steroidal moiety through an ester linkage are synthesized; some of them act as thermally reversible gelators of organic fluids and show novel light- and metal-responsive functions.
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Murata et al. (1991) studied this question.
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