A C15 hydrocarbon isolated from the leaves of 2 wild tomato species, Lycopersicon hirsutum f glabratum PI 199381 and Lycopersicon hirsutum PI 365906, has been identified as 7 - epizingiberene (2), a diastereomer of zingiberene (1) that occurs in essential oil of ginger. The structure assignment for 2 is based upon its 1H NMR, 13C NMR, IR, UV, and mass spectral characteristics. All spectral data for zingiberene and epizingiberene are identical except for 9 of 15 13C NMR resonances, which establish the diastereomeric relationship of these sesquiterpenes. The 4S, 7R stereochemistry of epizingiberene was proven by dehydrogenation to (7R)- ar - curcumene (4). The opposite 7R and 7S stereochemistry of the zingiberenes implicates the probable occurrence of opposite sidechain rotations of a common (S)-bisabolyl carbocation intermediate (1OA) to allow stereoelectronically favorable hydride shifts in their respective biosyntheses from (E, E)-farnesyl diphosphate. © 1994.
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Breeden, D. C., & Coates, R. M. (1994). 7-Epizingiberene, A novel bisabolane sesquiterpene from wild tomato leaves. Tetrahedron, 50(38), 11123–11132. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-4020(01)89415-1
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