Please detail the steps of how the pro-hormone 1-testosterone can be
methylated at the strictly at the 1 alpha position and secondly how
1-testosterone could be methylated strictly at the 17 alpha position.

Next can the 1-testosterone undecanoate be methylated at the 1 alpha
position while leavine the undecanoate ester intact?

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Clarification of Question by comus27-ga on 29 Aug 2002 06:59 PDT

1-testosterone is more formally known as 17beta-hydroxy-5alpha-androst-1-en-3-one.