Enzymic condensation of 3-methyl-2-alkenyl pyrophosphates with isopentenyl pyrophosphate

K Ogura, T Nishino, T Koyama…

Index: Ogura,K. et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1970 , vol. 92, p. 6036 - 6041

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Abstract: The substrate specificity of farnesyl pyrophosphate synthetase of pumpkin fruit was studied by using synthetic 3-methyl-2-alkenyl pyrophosphates. cis-3-Methyl-2-hexenyl pyrophosphate (19) reacted enzymically with isopentenyl pyrophosphate (1) as well as the trans isomer 12, and even cis-3-methyl-2-heptenyl pyrophosphate (20) was reactive, though far less reactive than its trans isomer 13. However, cis-3-methyl-2-octenyl pyrophosphate ( ...