dihydroartemisinic acid
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[edit]Noun
[edit]dihydroartemisinic acid (uncountable)
- An acid that is a precursor to artemisinin.
- 2015 July 9, Laura Bryant et al., “Proteomic analysis of Artemisia annua – towards elucidating the biosynthetic pathways of the antimalarial pro-drug artemisinin”, in BMC Plant Biology[1], volume 15, :
- What is known is that dihydroartemisinic acid can be converted non-enzymatically to artemisinin via an initial oxygenation to the corresponding tertiary allylic hydroperoxide, followed by Hock cleavage, and a second oxidative reaction on the resultant enolic intermediate.