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SUBMITTER: Voica AF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3405363 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature chemistry 20120708 8
The excision of hydrogen from an aliphatic carbon chain to produce an isolated olefin (desaturation) without overoxidation is one of the most impressive and powerful biosynthetic transformations for which there are no simple and mild laboratory substitutes. The versatility of olefins and the range of reactions they undergo are unsurpassed in functional group space. Thus, the conversion of a relatively inert aliphatic system into its unsaturated counterpart could open new possibilities in retrosy ...[more]