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Carbon-13 and carbon-14 labelling experiments have shown that the fungal xanthone ravenelin (1) is acetatederived. Enrichment studies with [1,2–13C]acetate have demonstrated that an oxygenated benzophenone derivative is an intermediate in the biosynthetic pathway.
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Birch et al. (1976) studied this question.
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