From Bio- to Geohopanoids: an Efficient Abiotic Passage Promoted by Oxygen in the Presence of Cuprous Chloride

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0040-4039(95)01408-A

In the presence of cuprous chloride, the representative biohopanoid 1a was smoothly converted by oxidation in pyridine into aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids with the same skeletons as those of molecular fossils ubiquitously found in the organic mat