Pfizer Handbook of Microbial Metabolites 146 



296 5-Dehydroshikimic Acid, CyHj^Or,, colorless prisms, m.p. 150- 

 152°, [aju'^ -57° (in ethanol). 



COOH 



HO I OH 



O 



H 



Escherichia coli mutants 



Ivan I. Salamon and Bernard D. Davis, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 

 75 5567 (1953). 



297 Shikimic Acid, C7H10O5, colorless crystals, m.p. 184°, [alc^" 

 -246° (in water). 



COOH 



Escherichia coli 



Yields of about 0.5 g. per liter have been reported. 

 P. R. Srinivasan, Harold T. Shigeura, Milton Sprescher, 

 David B. Sprinson and Bernard D. Davis, /. Biol. Chem. 220 



477 (1956). 



298 5-Dehydroquinic Acid, C^HioOg, colorless crystals, m.p. 140- 

 142°. 



COOH 



Escherichia coli 



Ulrich Weiss, Bernard D. Davis and Elizabeth S. Mingioli, 

 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 75 5572 (1953). 



