Ethanethiol

Mild Method for Cleavage of Dehydroalanine Units: Highly Efficient Conversion of Nocathiacin I to Nocathiacin IV

“…We contemplated the idea that the active reagent responsible for the transformation from 1 to 4 may not be iodomethane but rather some impurities present in this reagent or other entities generated in the process. Iodomethane is often an unstable chemical entity and needs to be stabilized using, for example, copper wire .…”