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SUBMITTER: Cadelis MM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6122400 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cadelis Melissa M MM Copp Brent R BR
Beilstein journal of organic chemistry 20180824
The structure of the sesquiterpene onchidal (<b>6</b>), a component of the defensive secretion of the shell-less mollusc <i>Onchidella binneyi</i>, contains a masked α,β-unsaturated 1,4-dialdehyde moiety, the presence of which has been proposed to be the cause of the feeding deterrent activity exhibited by the mollusc. We have found onchidal acts as an electrophile, reacting rapidly with the model nucleophile <i>n</i>-pentylamine forming diastereomeric aminated pyrrole adducts. Somewhat surprisi ...[more]