scholarly journals Uncovering the origin of Z-configured double bonds in polyketides: intermediate E-double bond formation during borrelidin biosynthesis

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 3563-3567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Kandziora ◽  
Jennifer N. Andexer ◽  
Steven J. Moss ◽  
Barrie Wilkinson ◽  
Peter F. Leadlay ◽  
...  

The dehydratase domain BorDH3 is assayed with a synthetic surrogate of the predicted tetraketide substrate and shown to be E-selective. Detailed NMR spectroscopic analysis of pre-borrelidin assigns the timing of the E-5 Z-isomerization to the very final steps of borrelidin biosynthesis.

1972 ◽  
Vol 180 (1059) ◽  
pp. 147-165 ◽  

The conversion of lanosterol║to cholesterol requires a considerable number of intermediary steps involving loss or uptake of hydrogen atoms and formation and migration of nuclear double bonds. Detailed discussions on the intermediary steps in cholesterol biosynthesis are reported in several reviews (Olson 1965; Frantz & Schroepfer 1967; Goad 1970). In the present report some mechanisms in the formation of cholesterol and its sterol precursors from lanosterol are discussed. The relation between in vitro and in vivo pathways of cholesterol biosynthesis and the composition and metabolism of sterols in biological tissues is underlined.


1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (12) ◽  
pp. 2874-2879 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ertl

Photoisomerization mechanism in model retinal-like protonated Schiff base pentadieniminium was investigated by using MNDO method with configuration interaction. Isomerizations around various double bonds were studied and twisted biradical geometries in S0 and S1 states were optimized. Photoisomerization proceeds exclusively around the central double bond where the twisted S1 state is strongly stabilized and the S0-S1 gap is minimal.


1970 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 813 ◽  
Author(s):  
AJ Birch ◽  
B McKague

An aspect of the synthesis of sterically defined trisubstituted double bonds is discussed. Metal-ammonia reductions of hydropyridinium salts such as (1 ; R, R' = H or Me) result in allylic fissions, with a considerable proportion of double bond retention in its original situation and complete retention of the original steric configuration in that position.


1953 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 902-911 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. S. Ramakrishnan ◽  
D. Raghunath ◽  
J. B. Pande

Abstract The chlorination of rubber solutions by gaseous chlorine was followed by isolating the partially chlorinated products and preparing their ozonides. The ozonides were hydrolyzed, and the acids and aldehydes formed on hydrolysis were determined. By a comparison with the amounts of acids and aldehydes obtained from ozonides of unreacted rubber, the amount of residual isoprenic double bonds present was found. The loss of double bonds attending the introduction of chlorine atoms into the molecule of rubber indicates four definite stages in chlorination : (1) initial substitutive attack by chlorine, with concomitant cyclization, resulting in a loss of one double bond between two isoprenic units, (2) substitution, (3) additive reaction, and (4) essentially substitution. Chlorination of aged rubber solutions differs from the above in that the cyclization reaction (stage 1) seems to be absent.


ChemInform ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. HOU ◽  
Y. FUJIWARA ◽  
T. JINTOKU ◽  
N. MINE ◽  
K. YOKOO ◽  
...  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azizuddin ◽  
Muhammad Iqbal ◽  
Syed Ghulam Musharraf

: For several decades, biotransformational studies on steroidal compounds have gained a lot of attention because it is an efficient approach for the structural modification of complicated natural or synthetic compounds with high regio-, chemo- and stereoselectivity at environmentally friendly conditions. This review summarizes the use of different strains of Cunninghamella blakesleeana for the biotransformation of sixteen steroids 1-16 into a variety of transformed products. The transformed products may be important as a drug or precursor for the production of important pharmaceuticals. The types of reactions performed by C. blakesleeana include hydroxylation, epoxidation, reduction, demethylation, oxidation, glycosidation, double bond formation, side-chain degradation, isomerisation and opening of an isoxazol ring, which would be difficult to produce by traditional synthesis.


2015 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 1163-1174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Weßling ◽  
Hans J Schäfer

Nitroalkenes are easily accessible in high variety by condensation of aldehydes with aliphatic nitroalkanes. They belong to the group of activated alkenes that can be hydrodimerized by cathodic reduction. There are many olefins with different electron withdrawing groups used for cathodic hydrodimerization, but not much is known about the behaviour of the nitro group. Synthetic applications of this group could profit from the easy access to nitroolefins in large variety, the C–C bond formation with the introduction of two nitro groups in a 1,4-distance and the conversions of the nitro group by reduction to oximes and amines, the conversion into aldehydes and ketones via the Nef reaction and base catalyzed condensations at the acidic CH bond. Eight 1-aryl-2-nitro-1-propenes have been electrolyzed in an undivided electrolysis cell to afford 2,5-dinitro-3,4-diaryl hexanes in high yield. The 4-methoxy-, 4-trifluoromethyl-, 2-chloro- and 2,6-difluorophenyl group and furthermore the 2-furyl and 2-pyrrolyl group have been applied. The reaction is chemoselective as only the double bond but not the nitro group undergoes reaction, is regioselective as a ß,ß-coupling with regard to the nitro group and forms preferentially two out of six possible diastereomers as major products.


1943 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 841-847
Author(s):  
A. Gantmacher ◽  
S. Medvedev

Abstract 1. When chloroprene and isoprene polymerize, besides the frequency characterizing the conjugate double bond in the monomer, there appears a higher frequency corresponding to the isolated double bond in the polymer. In the polymerization process, the intensity of the frequency of the conjugate double bond decreases and the intensity of the frequency of the isolated double bond increases. Because of the increase in the number of single bonds in the polymer, the intensity of the frequency of the single bond 1005 in the polymer is considerably greater than in the monomer. 2. Even in the case of the samples with high polymer contents (greater than 50 per cent), the intensity of the frequency of the conjugate double bond is considerably greater than the intensity of the frequency of the isolated double bond. This is attributable to the fact that part of double bonds disappear during polymerization. 3. The Raman spectra of the chloroprene and isoprene polymers differ essentially from those of the monomers. To characterize the frequencies of vibration in the polymer molecule, it is essential to investigate its Raman spectrum in a medium free of the monomer. 4. The formation of highly polymeric molecules on polymerization does not result in an increase in the intensity of the continuous background in spectrograms.


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