Supplementary material for Schoendorf et al. (2001) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98 (4), 1501–1506. (10.1073/pnas.031574198)

Experimental Methods

NMR Spectrometry.

All NMR spectra were recorded on a Varian Inova-500 NMR spectrometer operating at 18°C using a very sensitive 5-mm pulsed-field gradient 1H indirect-detection probe. The taxadien-diol monoacetate was dissolved in C6D6 to a final concentration of about 300 µM. 2D-TOCSY was acquired using a z-filtered DIPSI (Decoupling In the Presence of Scalar Interactions) mixing sequence, a 60-msec mixing time, 10-KHz spin-lock field, 16 repetitions, 256 (t1) ´ 2048 (t2) complex points, 6,500-Hz sweep in each dimension. 2D-ROESY was acquired using a z-filtered mixing sequence with a 409-msec mixing time, 4-KHz spin-lock field, 128 repetitions, 256 (t1) ´ 2048 (t2) complex points, 6,500-Hz sweep in each dimension. 2D-HSQC was acquired using 256 repetitions, 128 (t1) ´ 1024 (t2) complex points, 6,500 Hz in F2 and 15,000 Hz in F1. The time between repetitions was 1.5 sec for these experiments. Data were processed using Varian VNMR software, version 6.1C. The final data size, after linear-prediction in t1 and zero-filling in both dimension, was 1,024(F1) ´ 2,048(F2) complex points for all experiments.