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SUBMITTER: Choi SR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4004232 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Choi Seoung-ryoung SR Breugst Martin M Houk Kendall N KN Poulter C Dale CD
The Journal of organic chemistry 20140401 8
The biosynthetic pathways to isoprenoid compounds involve transfer of the prenyl moiety in allylic diphosphates to electron-rich (nucleophilic) acceptors. The acceptors can be many types of nucleophiles, while the allylic diphosphates only differ in the number of isoprene units and stereochemistry of the double bonds in the hydrocarbon moieties. Because of the wide range of nucleophilicities of naturally occurring acceptors, the mechanism for prenyltransfer reactions may be dissociative or assoc ...[more]