AN UNEXPECTED REVERSAL OF FLUORINE SUBSTITUENT EFFECTS IN THE BIOMETHYLENATION OF 2 POSITIONAL ISOMERS - A SERENDIPITOUS DISCOVERY

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BUIST, PH
PON, RA
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[1] The Ottawa-Carleton Chemistry Institute, Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa
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10.1021/jo00313a004
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O62 [有机化学];
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070303 ; 081704 ;
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The mechanism of biological cyclopropyl fatty acid biosynthesis as it occurs in Lactobacillus plantarum has been probed using fluorine substituent effects. It has been shown that the pattern of rate retardations induced by homoallylic fluorine substitution is numerically the same but opposite in sense for two series of olefinic fatty acid substrates bearing the double bond at either the 9- or the 11-position.
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