Journal of the American Chemical Society

α-L-Formamidinoglutaric Acid, an Intermediate in Histidine Metabolism1

A Miller, H Waelsch

Index: Miller; Waelsch Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1954 , vol. 76, p. 6195

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Citation Number: 7

Abstract

4 (5)-Imidazolone-5 (~)-propionic acid (or for that matter, any 2H, 4-imidazolone derived from an a-amino acid) is as yet unknown, and the analytical data would correspond to a dihydrate of this compound. However, it would be difficult to assign the experimental PK'values to an imidazolone. Furthermore, the synthetic compound has an optical rotation equal to that of the natural product and the latter has been previously shown to be ...