Stereochemistry of hydrogen elimination from C-6 of shikimate in naphthoquinone biosynthesis
- 1 January 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society D: Chemical Communications
- No. 11,p. 576-577
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c29710000576
Abstract
Feeding experiments with specifically and stereospecifically 14C- and 3H-labelled shikimic acids confirm earlier results in vitamin K and juglone formation and show that the biosynthesis involves loss of the pro-6R and retention of the pro-6S hydrogen of shikimate.Keywords
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