The chromic acid oxidation of steroidal 2,4- and 3,5-dienes and 2,4,6-trienes is shown to take place at the secondary termini of the alkenes rather than at the allylic positions and is rationalized in terms of a sequence of 1:4-additions of chromic acid.
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