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SUBMITTER: Wai H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6415968 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Organic letters 20180917 19
A metallacycle-centered approach to the assembly of partially aromatic synthetic steroids was investigated as a means to prepare a boutique collection of unique steroidal agents. The synthesis and discovery of estra-1,3,5(10),6,8-pentaene-2,16α-diol (VII) is described, along with structure-activity relationships related to its cytotoxic properties. Overall, VII was found to have a GI<sub>50</sub> = 0.2 μg/mL (∼800 nM) in MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells, be an efficacious estrogen receptor a ...[more]