Stereospecificity of the oxidation of ent-kauren-19-ol to ent-kaurenal by a microsomal enzyme preparation from Marah macrocarpus
Abstract
The oxidation of ent-kaur-16-en-19-ol (2) by a microsomal enzyme preparation from M. macrocarpus seeds proceeds with sterospecific loss of the C-19 hydrogen atom in (2) which appears at higher field in the n.m.r. spectrum and is assigned the pro-R configuration.