Biosynthesis of α-cyclopiazonic acid. Steric course of proton removal during the cyclisation of β-cyclopiazonic acid in Penicillium griseofulvum
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- p. 3292-3294
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p19810003292
Abstract
Feeding experiments with (3R)- and (3S)-[3-3H] tryptophan have shown that, in Penicillium griseofulvum Dierckx, incorporation of tryptophan into α-cycopiazonic acid (1) proceeds with loss of the 3-pro-S hydrogen atom. [3-2H2]Tryptophan was converted by P. griseofulvum into α-cyclopiazonic acid which was shown by 2H n.m.r. spectroscopy to contain deuterium only at the expected C-4 position. (2RS)-[2-3H,3-14C]Tryptophan was incorporated into α-cyclopiazonic acid (1) with loss of ca. 50% of the tritium. These findings are consistent with cyclisation of β-cyclopiazonic acid (4) to α-cyclopiazonic acid (1)via a 1,4-didehydro-derivative, with C–C bond formation at C-4 occurring from the side of the molecule opposite to that from which proton removal takes place.Keywords
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