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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Chem. 2017 Sep 25;10(1):70–77. doi: 10.1038/nchem.2865

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Establishment of a new chemical pathway for the enantiospecific synthesis of steroids. a, Establishment of a synthesis pathway from optically active epichlorohydrin to an enantiodefined estrane by way of a metallacycle-mediated annulative cross-coupling and an acid-mediated vinylcyclopropane rearrangement cascade. b, Proposed mechanism for the metallacycle-mediated annulative cross-coupling reaction.