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Some Structural and Stereochemical Aspects of Coumarin Biosynthesis

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Although predictions on the course of chemical progress can be widely off the mark, the main outlines of coumarin chemistry seem to be broadly established if one takes as a criterion, the new coumarin structures reported in the past decade. With the exception of a series of 3-substituted 4-hydroxy-5-methylcoumarins, probably biosynthesized from acetate and largely confined to the tribe Vernonieae (Compositae),1 most of the structures of new coumarins reported in this period are predictable variants of established structural patterns. Methods of coumarin isolation and structure determination are straightforward by modern standards. The literature contains a sizable data base of spectroscopic parameters making structure determination a fairly routine procedure.

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Dreyer, D.L. (1986). Some Structural and Stereochemical Aspects of Coumarin Biosynthesis. In: Conn, E.E. (eds) The Shikimic Acid Pathway. Recent Advances in Phytochemistry, vol 20. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8056-6_12

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