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Birkinshaw, Chambers and Raistrick1 have described stipitatic acid, a metabolite of the mould Penicillium stipitatum, to which, after lengthy examination, they could ascribe no reasonable structure. The evidence they give, however, does seem to indicate a unique structure for the compound. The evidence is as follows:
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DEWAR, M. Structure of Stipitatic Acid. Nature 155, 50–51 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155050b0
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