The absolute configuration of pectenotoxin-6 (4, PTX6), found in association with diarrhetic shellfish poisoning, was identified by NMR spectroscopy using a chiral anisotropic reagent, phenylglycine methyl ester (PGME), which was condensed with a carboxyl group of 4.
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Sasaki et al. (1997) studied this question.