Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
2008, 73, 786-794
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc20080786
The Concerted Nature of the Enzymatic Cyclization of Rings A-D of Squalene to Hopene
B. Andes Hess, Jr.a,* and Lidia Smenteka,b
a Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, U.S.A.
b Institute of Physics, N. Copernicus University, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
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