Biosynthesis of vitamin B12: structure of the ester of a new biosynthetic intermediate, precorrin-6y

1 January 1992

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 2,p. 139-141
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39920000139

Abstract

¹³ C Labelling and NMR experiments establish the structure of precorrin-6y octamethyl ester, the corresponding octa-acid being a further new intermediate on the biosynthetic pathway to hydrogenobyrinic acid 1.

Keywords

STRUCTURE
BIOSYNTHESIS
VITAMIN B12
BIOSYNTHETIC
CORRESPONDING
NMR
HYDROGENOBYRINIC
OCTA