合成路线1

Initially, a small-scale synthetic route to idoxifene had been described involving Friedel-Crafts acylation of 2-chloroethoxybenzene by 2-phenylbutyric acid followed by reaction of the resulting ketone with 4-iodophenyllithium (prepared by monolithiation of 1,4-diiodobenzene) . A mixture of E and Z isomers of the triphenylbutene was then produced by dehydration of the intermediate tertiary alcohol from which the desired E isomer (in which the unsubstituted phenyl and iodophenyl residues are in a trans relationship) was separated by crystallization. Idoxifene was then produced by final modification of the chloroethoxy side chain using pyrrolidine. Modification of the above scheme to provide an efficient, large-scale synthesis of idoxifene has now been described initially involving treatment of 2-phenoxyethanol with pyridine (in catalytic amounts) and thionyl chloride/heat to produce 2-chloroethoxybenzene.