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Synfacts 2009(1): 0001-0001  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1087239
Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs
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Synthesis of Tamiflu

Contributor(s): Philip Kocienski, Indu Dager
U. Zutter*, H. Iding, P. Spurr, B. Wirz
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland
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Publication Date:
18 December 2008 (online)

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Significance

Starting from cheap commercially available starting material, an enantioselective, scalable synthesis of tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate) is reported. This synthesis features a desymmetrization of the dihydroxy-meso-diester F by enantioselective hydrolysis with pig liver esterase.