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ChemInform Abstract: Stereochemistry of the Reduction of 24-Ethyldesmosterol to Sitosterol in Tissue Cultures of Oryza sativa.

✍ Scribed by Y. FUJIMOTO; N. SATO; T. OKUZUMI; J. YAMADA; M. MORISAKI


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Weight
29 KB
Volume
29
Category
Article
ISSN
0931-7597

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Stereochemistry of the Reduction of 24-Ethyldesmosterol to Sitosterol in Tissue Cultures of Oryza sativa.

-Feeding experiments of 26-13 C-and 27-13 C-labeled sterol (I) to cultured cells of O. sativa reveal that the reduction of the double bond proceeds with an anti-addition of hydrogen atoms. The (E)-methyl group of ethyldesmosterol becomes the pro-(S)-methyl of sitosterol, whereas the (Z)-methyl group turns to the pro-(R)-methyl. -