Fluoroacetaldehyde is a metabolic precursor of both
fluoroacetate
Fluoroacetate may refer to:
* Salts of fluoroacetic acid such as sodium fluoroacetate
* Fluoroacetate anion (), a conjugate base of fluoroacetic acid
* Esters
In chemistry, an ester is a chemical compound, compound derived from an acid (either ...
and
4-fluorothreonine in ''
Streptomyces cattleya
''Streptomyces cattleya'' is a Gram-positive bacterium which makes cephamycin, penicillin and thienamycin. The bacterium expresses a fluorinase enzyme, and the organism has been used to understand the biosynthesis of fluoroacetic acid, fluoroacet ...
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Organofluorides
Aldehydes
Fluorine-containing natural products