Has anyone attempted solving the Poincaré conjecture using Lie groups?

Among the many unsuccessful attempts at solving the Poincaré conjecture, I’m wondering if there was an approach that went along the lines of showing that a closed simply connected $3$-manifold could be endowed with a Lie group structure. This might not be enough to solve it, since there are other compact $3$-dimensional Lie groups (if I’m not wrong), but it’s tempting to think about since the only spheres which are Lie groups are of dimension $0, 1$ or $3$. This makes it feel like there is this special additional structure that can be used for the case $n=3$ as opposed to the generalized Poincaré conjecture, where no higher dimensional spheres are Lie groups.

So I’m wondering if someone tried this. If they did, what hurdle/subtlety did they find in the course of the attempt that prevented a solution? Did we learn something interesting from it?