Response to Comment on "Asymmetric syntheses of sceptrin and massadine and evidence for biosynthetic enantiodivergence"

  • Zhiqiang Ma
  • , Xiaolei Wang
  • , Xiao Wang
  • , Rodrigo A. Rodriguez
  • , Curtis E. Moore
  • , Shuanhu Gao
  • , Xianghui Tan
  • , Yuyong Ma
  • , Arnold L. Rheingold
  • , Phil S. Baran
  • , Chuo Chen*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Sherman et al. commented on the precedence of enantiodivergence, listing a number of congeneric natural products with opposite chirality. However, these "congeners" are not derived from enantiodivergent biosyntheses. Instead, they are antipodes arising from separate enantiomeric biosyntheses. A distinct feature of the biosynthesis of the cyclic pyrrole-imidazole dimers is the production of antipodal congeners without the corresponding enantiomers.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)149c
JournalScience
Volume349
Issue number6244
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Jul 2015
Externally publishedYes

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