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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2015 Apr 29;54(24):7106–7109. doi: 10.1002/anie.201502185

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Design of a biocompatible cyclopropanation reaction. A) Carbene intermediates in biological catalysis. B) Current approaches for accessing ethyl-2-phenylcyclopropane-1-carboxylate (1) from styrene using transition metal-mediated carbene chemistry. C) Phenyl cyclopropane production from D-glucose by combining in vivo styrene production with biocompatible chemistry.