Fungal and bacterial regioselective hydroxylation of pyrimidine heterocycles

Tetrahedron

Volumn 53, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 6421-6432

  Gotor, Vicente ^a   Quirós, Margarita ^a   Ramón, Liz ^a   Frigola, Jordi ^b   Fernández, Rosa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b Laboratorios Dr Esteve SA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LESOPITRON; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHIRALITY; FUNGUS; HYDROXYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; RHODOCOCCUS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASSIANA; BEAUVERIA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; ERYTHROPOLIS; FUNGI; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS;

EID: 0030934330     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4020(97)00301-3     Document Type: Article

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