Stereospecificity of the oxidation of ent-kauren-19-ol to ent-kaurenal by a microsomal enzyme preparation from Marah macrocarpus
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 17,p. 1013-1014
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39820001013
Abstract
The oxidation of ent-kaur-16-en-19-ol (2) by a microsomal enzyme preparation from M. macrocarpus seeds proceeds with sterospecific loss of the C-19 hydrogen atom in (2) which appears at higher field in the n.m.r. spectrum and is assigned the pro-R configuration.Keywords
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