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A stereoselective chlorination of a methyl group and the preference of cleavage of nonactivated primary C-H bonds in one of the methyl groups with respect to a weaker tertiary C-H bond in the course of the biosynthesis of barbamide point to a surprising, new mechanism of "biohalogenation" (see schematic diagram).
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