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ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
Volume 7, Issue 5, Pages 962-975Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b817194g
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- UK's Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/D069580/1]
- EPSRC [EP/D069580/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/D069580/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The catalytic mechanism of the enzyme aristolochene synthase from Penicillium roqueforti (PR-AS) has been probed with the farnesyl diphosphate analogues 6- and 14-fluoro farnesyl diphosphate (1b and 1c). Incubation of these analogues with PR-AS followed by analysis of the reaction products by GC-MS and NMR spectroscopy indicated that these synthetic FPP analogues were converted to the fluorinated germacrene A analogues 3b and 3c, respectively. In both cases the position of the fluorine atom prevented the formation of the eudesmane cation analogues 4b and 4c. These results highlight that germacrene A is an on-path reaction intermediate during PR-AS catalysis and shed light on the mechanism by which germacrene A is converted to eudesmane cation. They support the proposal that the role of PR-AS in the cyclisation is essentially passive in that it harnesses the inherent chemical reactivity present in the substrate by promoting the initial ionisation of farnesyl diphosphate and by acting as a productive template to steer the reaction through an effective series of cyclisations and rearrangements to (+)-aristolochene (7a).
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