The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Stereochemical relationship between mitomycins A, B, and C

U Hornemann, MJ Heins

Index: Hornemann, Ulfert; Heins, Michael J. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1985 , vol. 50, # 8 p. 1301 - 1302

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Abstract

As a consequence of the recent high precision determination of the absolute configuration of mitomycin C (IC) as C1 (SI, C2 (S), Cg (S), Cg,(R) by X-ray crystallographic analysis, l there now exists uncertainty about the stereochemical and perhaps even the biosynthetic relationships among some of the naturally occurring mitomycins. 2 This situation prompts us to report on studies which show that mitomycin A (Ia) and mitomycin B (11) have the same