Fruits of the sea: Alkylpyridine alkaloids are a family of marine natural products, the structures of which are all related to each other by the presence of a biogenetically common motif, an alkyl chain linked to C-3 of a six-membered nitrogen heterocycle. We report the first experimental evidence for the biosynthesis of alkylpyridines (see scheme).
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