Four antifungal isoflavones [7-hydroxy-4'-methoxy-(1); 5,7,4'-trihydroxy-(2); 5,7,2',4'-tetrahydroxy-(3); 5,2',4'-trihydroxy-7-methoxy-(4)] and one isoflavanone [(5,2'-dihydroxy-7,4'-dimethoxy-(7)] have been isolated from the fungus-infected stems of Cajanus cajan. A sixth compound has been provisionally identified as 5,2'-dihydroxy-7,4'-dimethoxyisoflavone (5). The structure of 5,2'-dihydroxy-...

Incubation of phenobarbital-induced rat liver microsomes with 2,2',5,5'-tetrachlorobiphenyl (TCB) yielded about 30% of the substrate as 3-hydroxy-TCB, 3,4-dihydroxy-TCB, 3,3'-dihydroxy-TCB (tentative identification), and 3,4-dihydro-3,4-dihydroxy-TCB in relative amounts of about 1:1:0.05:0.05. Under identical conditions, 2,2',5,5'-tetrachlorobiphenyl 3,4-oxide (TCBO) yielded about 45% of the su...

Driven by an interest in the impact of para-substituent calix[4]arenes on metal complexation and structural chemistry, studies p-cyclohexylcalix[4]arene (L) have been carried out. The 1:1 dichloromethane dimethylformamide solvates were found to be isostructural, different typical bilayer structure often observed for p-t-butylcalix[4]arene solvates. methanol solvate, contrast, does form a bilaye...

The chromatographic separation of a methylene chloride extract of Artemisia rubripes led to the isolation of a new sesquiterpene lactone (3), together with four known compounds, a coumarin (2) and three terpenes (1, 4, and 5). Their structures were characterized to be 1beta,6alpha-dihydroxy-4(15)-eudesmene (1), scopoletin (2), 1alpha,4beta-dihydroxy-8alpha-acetoxy-guaia-2,10(14), 11(13)-triene-...

Benz[a]anthracene and the five metabolically possible trans-dihydrodiols of benz[a]anthracene were tested for carcinogenicity in newborn Swiss-Webster mice. Four hundred, 800, and 1600 nmoles hydrocarbon i.p. were sequentially injected on Days 1, 8, and 15 of life. The mice were killed at 22 weeks of age. Of the mice treated with trans-3,4-dihydroxy-3, 4-dihydrobenz[a]anthracene, 24% developed ...

Further studies on the bark of Taiwania cryptomerioides found four new podocarpane derivatives, 1beta,13-dihydroxy-8,11,13-podocarpatriene (1), 14,18-dihydroxy-13-methoxy-8,11,13-podocarpatriene (2), 1beta,14-dihydroxy-13-methoxy-8,11,13-podocarpatriene-2,7-dione (3), and 3beta,14-dihydroxy-13-methoxy-8,11,13-podocarpatrien-7-one (4), together with a known 1beta,13,14-trihydroxy-8,11,13-podocar...