The structure and configuration of an antibiotic, ikarugamycin, have been established to be 1e on the basis of chemical reactions, especially of oxidative degradation. It is suggested that the as-hydrindacene skeleton arises biogenetically via an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction.
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