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Total Synthesis of the Alleged Structure of Crenarchaeol Enables Structure Revision

23 December 2020, Version 1
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Abstract

This study describes the first asymmetric total synthesis of the proposed structure of the archaeal membrane-spanning tetraether lipid crenarchaeol. The synthetic material was compared by NMR and GC-MS analysis with natural crenarchaeol. Detailed NMR analysis ultimately enabled the structure revision of crenarchaeol, identifying one out of 22 sterecenters to be inverted.

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Total Synthesis
Structure Revision
archaeal GDGT
Asymmetric Synthesis

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Dec 23, 2020 Version 1

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DOI

10.26434/chemrxiv.13475928.v1
D O I: 10.26434/chemrxiv.13475928.v1 [opens in a new tab]

Author’s competing interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest

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