The synthesis and study of steroids and terpenes continues to be a topic of widespread
interest, the esterification and etherification under Mitsunobu conditions of primary alcohol such
as geraniol prepared in 95% yield, and when a chiral secondary alcohol such as cholesterol or menthol
is used, sufficient configurational inversion of alcohol with 65% yield, but the reaction of tertiary
alcohols the a-terpeniol for example are rare.