Hydroxylamine natural products.

Abstract

Natural products containing the hydroxylamine group are discussed. These include acyclic hydroxylamines, isoxazolidines, 1,2-oxazines, diketopiperazines, endocyclic hydroxylamines with larger ring sizes, N-hydroxy and N-methoxypyrroles, -indoles, -carbazoles and -carbolines, pyridones, other rings with an exocyclic hydroxylamine, O-acylhydroxylamines and compounds that may be regarded as unprecedented or having little precedent. Isolation, characterization, biosynthesis and synthesis are covered.