Trichodiene Synthase. Stereochemical Studies of the Cryptic Allylic Diphosphate Isomerase Activity Using an Anomalous Substrate
作者:David E. Cane、Guohan Yang
DOI:10.1021/jo00098a046
日期:1994.9
Incubation of (7S)-6,7-dihydrofarnesyl diphosphate with trichodiene synthase gave, as previously described, a mixture consisting of 80% dihydrofarnesene isomers 6-8 accompanied by 6% trans- 6,7-dihydrofarnesol (10) and 13% 6,7-dihydronerolidol (9). The latter product has now been shown to be (3S,7S)-6,7-dihydronerolidol [(3S,7S)-9] by direct comparison with synthetic (3S,7S)-6,7-dihydronerolidol and (3RS,7S)-6,7-dihydronerolidol using chiral capillary gas chromatography. The observed formation of (3S,7S)-9 can be accounted for by backside attack of water on an allylic cation-pyrophosphate anion pair generated by syn allylic rearrangement of dihydrofarnesyl diphosphate (5) and ionization of the resulting (3R,7S)-6,7-dihydronerolidyl diphosphate (14). These results provide further support for the proposed isomerization of farnesyl diphosphate (1) to (3R)-nerolidyl diphosphate (3) in the enzymatic formation trichodiene (2).