Insight into a natural Diels-Alder reaction from the structure of macrophomate synthase.
Ose, T., Watanabe, K., Mie, T., Honma, M., Watanabe, H., Yao, M., Oikawa, H., Tanaka, I.(2003) Nature 422: 185-189
- PubMed: 12634789 
- DOI: 10.1038/nature01454
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1IZC - PubMed Abstract: 
The Diels-Alder reaction, which forms a six-membered ring from an alkene (dienophile) and a 1,3-diene, is synthetically very useful for construction of cyclic products with high regio- and stereoselectivity under mild conditions. It has been applied to t ...