“…All the ring junctions in the lupane nucleus are trans-fused. A similar ring conformation is also observed in 20 (29)lupene-3β,28β-diacetate (Mohamed et al, 2006), 3,28-diacetoxy-29-bromo-betulin (Ding et al, 2009) and also in betulinethanol (Drebushchak et al, 2010), betulin-DMSO (Boryczka et al, 2011), betulinic acid-DMSO (Boryczka et al, 2012a) solvates. However, the conformation of ring A in betulone differs significantly from that observed earlier for betulonic acid-DMSO and DMF solvate, where ring A adopts a boat conformation.…”