Penicitone: Structural Reassignment of a Proposed Natural Product Acid Chloride.
Ivan M NovitskiyMikhail ElyashbergRoderick W BatesAndrei G KutateladzeCraig M WilliamsPublished in: Organic letters (2023)
The proposed structure for the natural product penicitone, which contained a chemically improbable acid chloride functional group, was reassigned to a more probable structure using a combination of chemical knowledge, computer-assisted structure elucidation, and DFT methods.