Papyracillic acid isolated from Lachnum papyraceum and a Microsphaeropsis sp. is a ioactive 1,6-dioxaspirononene derivative in equilibrium with the open-chain form, and related to the mycotoxin penicillic acid.

Papyracillic acid and its analogues have potential as nonselective herbicides of natural origin.?

It exists in an equilibrium of diastereomers.

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  Papyracillic acid, a new penicillic acid analogue from the ascomycete Lachnum papyraceum, Rudong Shan, et al. Tetrahedron 52(30):10249-10254 (1996)

  
  
  



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  Papyracillic acid, a phytotoxic 1,6-dioxaspirononene produced by Ascochyta agropyrina Var. nana, a potential mycoherbicide for Elytrigia repens biocontrol, Evidente A, et al. J.Agric. Food Chem 57(23):11168-73 (2009)

  
  
  

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