Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin

Total Synthesis of Estrone via Estriol Dimethyl Ether

T ASAKO, K HIRAGA, T MIKI

Index: Asako; Hiraga; Miki Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 1973 , vol. 21, # 4 p. 697 - 702

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Abstract

Meerwein-Ponndorf reduction of 3-methoxy-8, 14-secoestra-1, 3, 5 (10), 9, 15-pentaene-14, 17-dione (III) yielded a mixture of rac-17α-and 17β-hydroxy-3-methoxy-8, 14-secoestra-1, 3, 5 (10), 9, 15-pentaen-14-one (XI and XII). Cyclization of 17β-benzoate of XII gave 3, 16α-