Configurational assignment of brassinosteroid sidechain by exciton coupled circular dichroic spectroscopy
作者:Akira Kawamura、Nina Berova、Koji Nakanishi、Brunhilde Voigt、Günter Adam
DOI:10.1016/s0040-4020(97)00709-6
日期:1997.9
A microscale method was developed to determine the sidechain configuration of brassinosteroids, a class of potent plant growth promoters. Microscale naphthoylation followed by circular dichroic (CD) spectroscopy measurement in acetonitrile unambiguously differentiate between the two possible vicinal syn-diol configurations, (22R,23R) and (22S,23S). (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.