Triphenylethylene (TPE) is the organic compound with the formula . It is a colorless solid. ==Synthesis and reactions== The compound is prepared in two steps from benzophenone via the intermediacy of 1,2,2-triphenylethanol. Triphenylethylene reacts with iodine to give 9-phenylphenanthroline. Epoxidation gives the chiral oxirane.
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Triphenylethylene (TPE) is the organic compound with the formula . It is a colorless solid. ==Synthesis and reactions== The compound is prepared in two steps from benzophenone via the intermediacy of 1,2,2-triphenylethanol. Triphenylethylene reacts with iodine to give 9-phenylphenanthroline. Epoxidation gives the chiral oxirane.
==Bioactivity== Triphenylethylene possesses weak estrogenic activity. Its estrogenic effects were discovered in 1937. TPE was derived from structural modification of the more potent estrogen diethylstilbestrol, which is a member of the stilbestrol group of nonsteroidal estrogens.
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