Meanings
adjectivemonochlorinated (not comparable)
- not comparablechlorinated with a single atom of chlorine
For example, the monochlorinated analog of 1, hectochlorin C ( 6 ), is likely produced by a process wherein the chlorination enzyme fails to catalyze the addition of a second chlorine atom to the substrate, and this modification is transparent to subsequent downstream biosynthetic steps.
2015 July 30, “Expanding the Described Metabolome of the Marine Cyanobacterium Moorea producens JHB through Orthogonal Natural Products Workflows”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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