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Asymmetric synthesis of an MMP-3 inhibitor incorporating a 2-alkyl succinate motif
Ashcroft, Christopher P.,Challenger, Stephen,Derrick, Andrew M.,Storey, Richard,Thomson, Nicholas M.
, p. 362 - 368 (2003)
An efficient and practical synthesis is presented of the pharmaceutically active MMP-3 inhibitor UK-370,106 (1) via an olefination/catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation sequence. Commercially available 5-bromo-2-iodotoluene was converted in two steps to the
