Aspergillic acid acetic acid gives a diketopiperazine. Hydrolysis with HBr yields a mixture of -leucine and -isoleucine. These reaction schemes can be seen below: Aspergillic acid Aspergillic acid is an organic chemical compound with the molecular formula CHNO. It has a pale yellow crystalline appearance. Aspergillic acid is most commonly known as an antibiotic and antifungal agent that is derived from certain strains of the fungus "Aspergillus flavus". In 1940 Edwin C. White and Justina H. Hill discovered that a fungal strain of "Aspergillus flavus" growing in a surface culture on a tryptone-salt was capable of producing a bactericidal filtrate. It has
2-Ethylhexanoic acid 2-Ethylhexanoic acid 2-Ethylhexanoic acid is the organic compound with the formula CH(CH)CH(CH)COH. It is a carboxylic acid that is widely used to prepare lipophilic metal derivatives that are soluble in nonpolar organic solvents. 2-Ethylhexanoic acid is a colorless viscous oil. It is supplied as a racemic mixture. 2-Ethylhexanoic acid is produced industrially from propylene, which is hydroformylated to give butyraldehyde. Aldol condensation of the aldehyde gives 2-ethylhexenal, which is hydrogenated to 2-ethylhexanal. Oxidation of this aldehyde gives the carboxylic acid. 2-Ethylhexanoic acid forms compounds with metal cations that have stoichiometry as metal acetates. These ethylhexanoate complexes are used in organic