The necic acids of the Senecio alkaloids arise by a biosynthetic pathway involving the coupling of metabolites derived from isoleucine. from threonine (111) and pyruvate,2 as shown in Scheme 2.Earlier investigations1 showed that [UJ4C] threonine was not incorporated into C-8 of seneciphyllic acid (I), in
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