Nonoxidative cyclization of squalene by Tetrahymena pyriformis. The incorporation of a 3β-hydrogen (deuterium) atom into tetrahymanol

1 January 1978

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

No. 7,p. 333-334
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39780000333

Abstract

It was shown by ²H-n.m.r. spectroscopy that the proton introduced by T. pyriformis in the cyclization of squalene assumes the 3β-stereochemistry in the biosynthesized tetrahymanol.