“…As an alternative approach to modification of either the steroid nucleus or the C2 position of 2-MeOE2, the C3/C17 hydroxy groups were sulphamoylated to give 2-methoxyoestradiol-3,17-O,O-bis-sulphamate (2-MeOE2bisMATE, Figures 1, 2) (Howarth et al, 1994;Purohit et al, 1995a, b;Raobaikady et al, 2003;Newman et al, 2004;Leese et al, 2006). In addition, a C17 analogue of 2-MeOE2bisMATE, cyanomethyl derivative (2-methoxy-3-O-sulphamoyl-17b-cyanomethyloestra-1,3,5(10)-triene,17-Cym-2-MeOE2-MATE, Figures 1, 3) was also synthesised (Utsumi et al, 2005).…”