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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 25.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Catal. 2017 Oct 9;8(2):1371–1375. doi: 10.1021/acscatal.7b02823

Scheme 2.

Scheme 2

NMR labeling patterns employed in the literature to determine the mechanism of the biosynthesis of trichothecenes. (a) 13C labeling (gray spheres) determines methyl migration patterns, while (b) Tritium labeling determines proton transfer stereochemistry. Only the depicted conformation in (b) gives the correct labeling patters, and not the one adopted by Wang et al.1