Stereochemistry of hydrogen removal β to nitrogen in the biological conversion of O-methylnorbelladine into the montanine-type alkaloids
Abstract
Feeding experiments with asymmetrically labelled precursors show that in the biological conversion of O-methylnorbelladine (2) into the 5,11-methanomorphanthridine alkaloid, montanine (5), a pro-S hydrogen from C-2 of the precursor is lost.