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The reduction of the antibiotic abikoviromycin by complex metal hydrides and its hydrogenation in the presence of various catalysts have been studied.
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It has been established that abikoviromycin is 5-ethylidene-4,4a-epoxy-2,3,4,4a-tetrahydro-5H-1-pyrindine and has the (4S, 4aR, 5-1′E) configuration.
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M. M. Shemyakin Institute of the Chemistry of Natural Compounds, Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 104–112, January, 1971.
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Gurevich, A.I., Kolosov, M.N., Korobko, V.G. et al. Structure and stereochemistry of the antibiotic abikoviromycin. Chem Nat Compd 7, 92–98 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01032036
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