Katsuta Y, Aoyama Y, Osone H, Wada A, Uchiyama S, Kitamoto T, Masushige S, Kato S, Ito M
Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo). 1994 Dec;42(12):2659-61. doi: 10.1248/cpb.42.2659.
New retinoic acid (RA) analogs 9E-locked-RA 3 and 9Z-locked-RA 4 were synthesized from dithiane 6 and beta-cyclocitral 13, respectively. Both analogs behaved as agonistic ligands for a mixture of retinoic acid receptor (RAR) and retinoid X receptor (RXR).