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A two-step chemical and circular dichroic method for assigning the absolute configurations of sphingosines

  • V. Dirsch
  • , J. Frederico
  • , N. Zhao
  • , G. Cai
  • , Y. Chen
  • , S. Vunnam
  • , J. Odingo
  • , H. Pu
  • , K. Nakanishi
  • , N. Berova
  • , D. Liotta
  • , A. Bielawska
  • , Y. Hannun
  • Columbia University

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Abstract

Breakdown products of sphingolipids are involved in cell regulation and exhibit a wide variety of activities related to signal transduction. The backbone of sphingolipids are the sphingosines which have two stereogenic centers. A general, rapid, chemical/chiroptical micromethod based on the bichromophoric CD exciton chirality principle was developed to distinguish all four possible stereoisomers nonambiguously at a level of ca. 1 microgram.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4959-4962
Number of pages4
JournalTetrahedron Letters
Volume36
Issue number28
StatePublished - 1995

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