The metabolomic analysis of developing Vanilla planifolia green pods (between 3 and 8 months after pollination) was carried out by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and multivariate data analysis. Multivariate data analysis of the (1)H NMR spectra, such as principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least-squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), showed a trend of separation of tho...

& A PREVIOUS COMMUNICATION (1) we have reported that vanillin reacts with a large number of organic compounds with a carbonyl group, with aldehydes, and particularly with ketones, diketones, and ketonic acids to produce yellowish, or yellowish-red color complexes. Because of its wide reactivity the vanillin-alkali reagent cannot be used for any specific carbonyl compound unless it is first sepa...

Z. Naturforsch. 55 b, 1037-1044 (2000); received July 28, 2000 Nonadentate Ligand, Schiff Base, Nickel The tetrapodal pentaamine 2,6-C5H3N[CMe(CH2NH2)2l2 (pyN_u 1) readily reacts with four equivalents of 2-hydroxyphenyl-substituted carbonyl compounds, such as (i) 2-hydroxybenzaldehyde, (ii) 2,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde, (iii) 3,5-di-rm-butyl-2-hydroxybenzaldehyde, and (iv) 2-hydroxyacetophenone, t...

To determine whether microbial chemosensors can be used to find new or better biocatalysts, we constructed Escherichia coli hosts that recognize the product of a biocatalytic conversion through the transcriptional activator NahR and respond by expression of a lacZ or tetA reporter gene. Equipped with a benzaldehyde dehydrogenase (XylC from Pseudomonas putida), the lacZ-based host responded to t...

A series of difunctionalized 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde derivatives were designed, synthesized and evaluated as cholinesterase (acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE)) inhibitors. The results demonstrated that all the compounds had more potent AChE and BChE inhibitory activities than galanthamine-HBr, one of the best cholinesterase inhibitors known so far. The inhibition mechan...

Ruminal bacteria were subjected to a series of phenolic compounds in various concentrations to acquire fundamental information on the influence on growth and the potential limits to forage utilization by phenolic monomers. Ruminococcus albus 7, Ruminococcus flavefaciens FD-1, Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens 49, and Lachnospira multiparus D-32 were tested against 1, 5, and 10 mM concentrations of sina...

Three volatile components, namely benzoic acid ethyl ester (1), 2,6-di-tert-butyl-p-benzoquinone (BHT-quinone) (2), and 3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxybenzaldehyde (BHT-CHO) (3), were detected from the gas in the capsules of Asclepias physocarpa by means of GC/MS analysis. BHT-quinone and BHT-CHO as organic pollutants are the degradation products of the antioxidant 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol ...

Vanillin dehydrogenase (VDH) is a crucial enzyme involved in the degradation of lignin-derived aromatic compounds. Herein, the VDH from Corynebacterium glutamicum was characterized. The relative molecular mass (Mr) determined by SDS-PAGE was ~51 kDa, whereas the apparent native Mr values revealed by gel filtration chromatography were 49.5, 92.3, 159.0 and 199.2 kDa, indicating the presence of d...