Stereochemical course of dehydration catalysed by the yeast fatty acid synthetase

1 January 1978

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 5,p. 193-194
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39780000193

Abstract

Dehydration of the (3R)-hydroxyalkyl S-thioester (1) by yeast fatty acid synthetase to give the trans-2-enoyl derivative (2) occurs by means of a syn-elimination of the elements of water.

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