Elaiomycin. 1 An Aliphatic α, β-Unsaturated Azoxy Compound

CL Stevens, BT Gillis, JC French…

Index: Stevens et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1958 , vol. 80, p. 6088,6091

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Abstract

The antibiotic Elaiomycin was isolated from submerged culture filtrates of Streptomyces hepaticus. l The biological action and chemical structure of the antibiotic are unique. Elaiomycin, which was isolated as a distillable oil, has marked activity only against certain virulent and avirulent mammalian strains of tubercle bacilli5 and is shown by this investigation to have the chemical structure I.