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| CAS number | [126-49-8] |
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| Molecular formula | C10H10O6 |
| Molar mass | 226.183 |
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Prephenic acid, more commonly known by its anionic form prephenate, is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of the aromatic amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine.
It is synthesized by a [3,3]-sigmatropic Claisen rearrangement of chorismate.[1][2]
References
- ^ Helmut Goerisch (1978). "On the mechanism of the chorismate mutase reaction". Biochemistry 17: 3700. doi:.
- ^ Peter Kast, Yadu B. Tewari, Olaf Wiest, Donald Hilvert, Kendall N. Houk, and Robert N. Goldberg (1997). "Thermodynamics of the Conversion of Chorismate to Prephenate: Experimental Results and Theoretical Predictions". J. Phys. Chem. B 101 (50): 10976–10982. doi:.
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