The health beneficial effects of dietary polyphenols have been attributed to their intrinsic antioxidant activity, which depends on the structure of the compound and number of hydroxyl groups. In this study, the protective effects of pyrogallol, phloroglucinol, and myricetin on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae were investigated. Pyrogallol and myricetin, which have a pyrogallol structure in t...

An intertidal sample of the Australian marine brown alga, Zonaria spiralis, exhibited promising kinase inhibitory and antibacterial activity. Chemical analysis returned six phloroglucinol-derived lipids, the new hemiketal spiralisones A-D (1-4) and the known chromones 5-6, and the known norsesquiterpenoid apo-9'-fucoxanthinone (7). Structures 1-7 were assigned on the basis of detailed spectrosc...

The influence of phlorotannins and bromophenols on the feeding behavior of marine herbivores was determined using bioassay of Turbo cornutus. It was found that phloroglucinol and its oligomers isolated from the brown alga Eisenia bicyclis (eckol, fucofuroeckol A, phlorofucofuroeckol A, dieckol, and 8,8’-bieckol) had a deterrent effect against feeding behavior of T. cornutus in the concentration...

This article lays out a new method to measure the antioxidant capacity of some flavonoids. The methodology developed is based on the kinetics of the reaction of the antioxidant substrate with the superoxide radical (O(2)(*-)). A cyclic voltammetric technique was used to generate O(2)(*-) by reduction of molecular oxygen in aprotic media. In the same experiment the consumption of the radical was...

We have developed a simplified xylose assay procedure that requires only 10 min and requires 50 microL of serum or 5 microL of urine. The reaction with phloroglucinol is more sensitive than the classic p-bromaniline color reaction, and requires only 4 min of heating for color development. A single reagent is mixed with the specimen directly, without prior protein precipitation. Analytical recov...

a simple, mild and high efficient procedure for one pot three component synthesis of 2-amino 4-h chromene derivatives was studied. the reaction was performed in water using aryl aldehydes, malononitrile and resorcinol, phloroglucinol or naphthole in the presence of n-methyl d-glucamine (meglumine) as a green high efficient catalyst. the reaction was studied in thermal, microwave (mw) and ultras...