Incorporation of shikimic acid into iodinin

✍ Scribed by Ulrich Hollstein; David L. Mock; Randy R. Sibbitt; Uta Roisch; Franz Lingens

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 176 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)94919-6

✦ Synopsis

The role of shikimic acid (1) as precursor for a number of antibiotic phenazines' has been established among others for iodinin (2). Our previous results" have led to the conclusion that for iodinin the possible pairing schemes of two shikimic acid molecules can be narrowed down to schemes A and B. We have been able to eliminate pairing scheme A by the direct 13 C-NMR method for elucidating the biosynthetic pathway.