Biosynthesis of isoflavonoid phytoalexins in Medicago sativa: the biosynthetic relationship between pterocarpans and 2′-hydroxyisoflavans

1 January 1976

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

No. 16,p. 637-638
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39760000637

Abstract

Demethylhomopterocarpin (1) and vestitol (8) are interconvertible in CuCl₂-treated lucerne seedings, but they appear to be synthesised simultaneously from a common intermediate; sativan (9) is probably derived by the methylation of vestitol.