Twenty-seven pyrrolizidine alkaloids were identified by a detailed phytochemical study and GC/MS analysis on twelve Bulgarian species from genus Senecio. Twenty of them are new for the corresponding species. Other six structures remain tentatively identified.

A series of 1-pentyl-1H-indol-3-yl-(1-naphthyl)methanes (9-11) and 2-methyl-1-pentyl-1H-indol-3-yl-(1-naphthyl)methanes (12-14) have been synthesized to investigate the hypothesis that cannabimimetic 3-(1-naphthoyl)indoles interact with the CB(1) receptor by hydrogen bonding to the carbonyl group. Indoles 9-11 have significant (K(i)=17-23nM) receptor affinity, somewhat less than that of the cor...

the pyrrolizidine alkaloids (pas) are a group of chemicals found in a variety of plant species throughout the world. these toxic alkaloids are distributed mainly in senecio (compositae), crotalaria (legominosae) and heliotropium (boraginaceae) species. plants containing these alkaloids cause significant mammalian morbidity and mortality, especially in humans. upon ingestion, metabolic activatio...

The title compound, C(18)H(12)S, comprises five fused rings forming an essentially planar mol-ecule, with a total puckering amplitude (Q) of 0.032 Å and a maximum deviation from the mean plane of 0.014 (4) Å for the C atoms of the methyl-ene groups. A crystallographic mirror plane orthogonal to the mol-ecular plane passes through the S atom and the midpoint of the opposite C-C bond within the c...

In the title compound, C(27)H(20)ClNO(3), the two cyclo-pentane rings adopt envelope conformations. The pyrrolidine ring also adopts an envelope conformation (with the spiro C atom as the flap) and its least-squares plane (fitted to five atoms) makes dihedral angles of 66.50 (9), 77.36 (8) and 73.76 (8)° with the chloro-benzene ring and the two 2,3-dihydro-1H-indene ring systems, respectively. ...

The electrical transport properties of films derived from aqueous semiconducting nanoparticle are fully described by a phenomenological model that relates intrinsic film morphology to photovoltaic response. The model is applied to a new bulk heterojunction blend, composed of organic semiconducting nanoparticles formed from the polymer donor poly[{2,6-(4,8-didodecylbenzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene...