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SUBMITTER: Patel A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5367884 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Patel Ashay A Chen Zhuo Z Yang Zhongyue Z Gutiérrez Osvaldo O Liu Hung-wen HW Houk K N KN Singleton Daniel A DA
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20160309 11
SpnF, an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of spinosyn A, catalyzes a transannular Diels-Alder reaction. Quantum mechanical computations and dynamic simulations now show that this cycloaddition is not well described as either a concerted or stepwise process, and dynamical effects influence the identity and timing of bond formation. The transition state for the reaction is ambimodal and leads directly to both the observed Diels-Alder and an unobserved [6+4] cycloadduct. The potential energy sur ...[more]