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Intramolecular ring closure and oxidative decarboxylation following lactone ring opening allow urdamycin H (2) to be synthesized from urdamycin C (1) in a nonenzymatic process. This was the result of biosynthetic studies and model reactions on the urdamycin system.
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Jürgen Rohr (1990) studied this question.
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