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13-Demethyl-13-substituted-13,14-dihydroretinols were synthesized and their stability under various conditions was measured in order to evaluate whether they would be useful as affinity labels of retinol binding proteins and retinol metabolizing enzymes. The 13-chloro analog could not be isolated because it eliminated HCl under the Wittig reaction conditions of its preparation. The trans- and cis-13,14-epoxy...