Structure and synthesis of cis-3,6-dibenzyl-3,6-bis(methylthio)-piperazine-2,5-dione, a new metabolite of Aspergillus terreus
Abstract
The titled compound (1b), the first naturally occurring, sulphur-containing dioxopiperazine unsubstituted on nitrogen, has been isolated from Aspergillus terreus and synthesised via the corresponding epidisulphide (2d), which has been tested as a biosynthetic precursor of bisdethiobis(methylthio)acetylaranotin (3).