The Preparation and Microbiological Hydroxylation of 10β,11-Oxido-4α,5α,7β-eremophilane

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Simone F. Arantes, James R. Hanson and Peter B. Hitchcock


Abstract

The preparation of 10β,11-oxido-4α,5α,7β-eremophilane by the oxymercuration of valencene, its microbiological hydroxylation at C-1, C-3, C-6, C-7 and C-8 by the fungus, Mucor plumbeus, and the X-ray crystal structures of two of the metabolites, are described.


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