A new compound, (4R,6R)-(+)-6,8-oxidomenth-1-en-9-ol produced by microbial conversion of (-)-cis-carveol.

Yoshiaki Noma, Hiroyuki Nishimura, Shigeru Hiramoto, Morita Iwami, Chuji TATSUMI

Agricultural and Biological Chemistry · 1982 · 10 citations · 0 references

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In the previous paper,1} (-)-carvone was shown to be converted to (-)-as-carveol or ( -)-trans-carvQol as one of the main metabolic products by some species such as strains of Streptomyces, A-5-1, and Nocardia, 1-3-ll.