By a combination of chemical and spectroscopic (1H and 13C NMR) studies the structure of a glycopeptide antibiotic eremomycin has been elucidated. It is closely related to vancomycin, but differs in sugar and chlorine content. The eremomycin aglycone contains monodechlorovancomycinic acid; the only chlorine atom is situated in the second amino acid after the N-terminal amino acid residue of the...

Cold-acclimated twigs of Amelanchier alnifolia Nutt. released less HCN at -4.5 C than nonacclimated twigs following slow freezing to -25 C or rapid freezing to -78 C. Cold-acclimated twigs frozen slowly to -25 C released more HCN than cold-acclimated twigs frozen only to -4.5 C. Cold-acclimated twigs frozen slowly to -25 C and then rapidly to -78 C released less HCN at -4.5 C than cold-acclimat...

We report that the common polyalcohol D-mannitol may have two amorphous phases related by a first-order transition. Slightly above its glass transition temperature Tg (284 K), the supercooled liquid (SCL) of D-mannitol transforms to a low-energy, apparently amorphous phase with stronger hydrogen bonds. The enthalpy of this so-called Phase X is approximately halfway between those of the known am...

In the title tribenzyl-chloridotin-triphenyl-phosphine adduct, [Sn(C(7)H(7))(3)Cl(C(18)H(15)OP)], the Sn(IV) atom is in a trans-C(3)SnClO trigonal-bipyramidal geometry and is displaced out of the C(3)Sn girdle in the direction of the axial Cl atom by 0.112 (1) in one independent mol-ecule and by 0.167 (1) Å in the other. The phenyl ring of one of the six benzyl units was refined as equally diso...

UNLABELLED The current study was aimed to evaluate the performance of direct 2,3,5-triphenyl tetrazolium chloride assay and direct microscopic observation drug susceptibility assay with indirect Löwenstein-Jensen proportion method directly on Ziehl-Neelsen smear positive sputum specimens. METHODS Direct acid fast bacilli smear positive sputum specimens (n=264) were subjected to isoniazid and ...

Phosphonate derivatives were prepared using multicomponent reactions of dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylate with 4-hydroxycumarine in the presence of trimethyl or triphenyl phosphite in good yields.