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SUBMITTER: Song ZJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC395984 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Song Zhiguo J ZJ King Anthony O AO Waters Marjorie S MS Lang Fengrui F Zewge Daniel D Bio Matthew M Leazer Johnnie L JL Javadi Gary G Kassim Amude A Tschaen David M DM Reamer Robert A RA Rosner Thorsten T Chilenski Jennifer R JR Mathre David J DJ Volante R P RP Tillyer Richard R
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040412 16
An efficient asymmetric synthesis of a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) that has a dihydrobenzoxathiin core structure bearing two stereogenic centers is reported. The stereogenic centers were established by an unprecedented chiral sulfoxide-directed stereospecific reduction of an alpha,beta-unsaturated sulfoxide to the saturated sulfide in one step. Studies to elucidate the mechanism for this reduction are reported. Highly efficient Cu(I)-mediated ether formation was used to install ...[more]