Abstract:(-)-CC-1065, the unnatural enantiomer of the potent and sequence-selective, DNA- reactive antibiotic,(+)-CC-1065, was prepared by synthesis and its malent reaction with DNA was studied and compared to that of the natural product. Although (-)-CC-1065 also formed covalent adducts in which the cyclopropyl carbon was bonded to the N3 atom of adenine, and the thermal strand breakage that it produced paralleled that seen for (+)-CC-1065, it ...