Synthesis and Biotransformation of Tetrahydroquinoline by Mortierella isabelina

a Laboratorio de Sintesis Organica, Instituto de Quimica de Recursos Naturales, Universidad de Talca, Casilla 747, Talca, Chile. Fax: +56 – 71 – 200448. E-mail: lastudi@utalca.cl b Departamento de Quimica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 653, Santiago, Chile * Author for correspondence and reprint requests Z. Naturforsch. 64 c, 215 – 218 (2009); received August 28/October 22, 2008 Tetrahydroquinoline (1), prepared by a traditional synthetic method, the imino DielsAlder reaction, was biotransformed by Mortierella isabelina to afford a new compound, 2, characterized by spectroscopic methods.