Antonio Echavarran and co-workers at ICIQ have reported in ACIE on a synthesis of schisanwilsonene A.

Posted by naturalproductman on May 10, 2013
Antonio Echavarran and co-workers at ICIQ have reported in ACIE on a synthesis of schisanwilsonene A.

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Posted by naturalproductman on May 7, 2013
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Posted by naturalproductman on January 17, 2013
Hideaki Oikawa and co-workers from Hokkaido University have reported in Organic Letters on the isolation of an enzyme that was known to produce some natural products. They expressed and purified the enzyme, incubated the enzyme in the presence of substrates: geranyl diphosphate (GPP) and isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP), and examined the products.

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