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A New Biosynthetic Pathway to Alkaloids in Plants: Acetogenic Isoquinolines

DOI

86

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0

References

2000

Year

Gerhard Bringmann, Michael Wohlfarth, Heiko Rischer, Matthias Grüne, Jan Schlauer
Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Abstract

Built up from acetate, dioncophylline A is the only acetogenic tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloid as yet known (see scheme). This new biosynthetic pathway was proved by feeding experiments with [13C2]acetate.