most reservoir fluids contain heavy paraffinic compounds that may precipitate as a solid or solid like material called wax if the fluid is cooled down. wax precipitation is a phenomenon of considerable importance in oil industry. an increase in aggregation results in enhanced oil viscosity. this however causes significant negative effects on production, transportation and processing of crude oi...

The absolute stereostructure of luminamicin, an anaerobic antibiotic, has been determined by using conformational analysis via high-temperature molecular dynamics, NMR spectroscopy, and the modified Mosher method. It was found that luminamicin has the S, S, R, R, R, R, S, S, S, R, and S configurations at C2, C4, C7, C9, C10, C11, C12, C13, C16, C28, and C29, respectively. This configuration is ...

Gambierol is a polycyclic ether toxin, which has been isolated from the marine dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus. A series of gambierol analogues have been prepared from an advanced intermediate of our total synthesis of gambierol and investigated for their toxicity against mice, thus providing the first systematic structure-activity relationships (SAR) of this polycyclic ether class of mari...

Article history: Received 16 September 2012 Received in revised form 4 September 2013 Accepted 17 October 2013 Available online 23 October 2013 In this paper we revisit the evidence recently provided by Philippon (2009) about the relationship among bond market's Q, stock market's Q and aggregate investments for the US. Specifically, we analyze the stability of the relationship between aggregate...

During 2009-2010, 161 tissue samples (142 placentas, 16 brains, and 3 livers) from aborted ovine fetuses on Sardinia Island, Italy, were tested for toxoplasmosis. Organs that showed a positive result by nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeting the ITS1 region for Toxoplasma gondii were also amplified with 11 genetic markers (SAG1, 5'-SAG2, 3'-SAG2, SAG3, BTUB, GRA6, c22-8, c29-2, L358, ...

The title compound, C(32)H(40)O(10), also known as xyloccensin L [systematic name: (1R,4aR,4bS,5aR,6aR,9R,10S,10aS,10bR,2aR,13R)-1-(furan-3-yl)-6a-hy-droxy-10-(2-meth-oxy-2-oxoeth-yl)-9,10a,12a-trimethyl-3-oxododeca-hydro-1H,3H,5aH-6,9-methano-isochromeno[6,5-f]oxireno[g]chromen-13-yl (2E)-2-methyl-but-2-enoate], is a limonoid with a C1-C29 oxygen bridge: this is the first report of the X-ray c...

Cl6 = 0.3269 Cl7 0.7458 Cl,10 = 0.6322 C26 = 0.6428 C18 0.2978 Ci,11 = — 0.1488 C36 = 0.6725 Cl9 = 0.4364 Cl,12 = — 0.4904 C46 = 0.1488 C27 = 0.1340 C2.10 = 0 Cö6 = 0 C28 = 0.4845 C2.11 = 0 C7.10 = 0.7260 C29 = 0.6087 C2.12 = 0 C7,ll = 0.5467 y s37 = 0.3405 C3.10 = 0.6793 ^7,12 = 0.4507 C38 = 0.0394 C3. l l = 0.6793 £8,10 0.6176 C39 == 0.2440 C3.12 = 0.2151 -8.1 1 = 0.7615 C47 = 0.1087 C4,10 = ...

Although the Korean isolate KI-1 of Toxoplasma gondii has been considered to be a virulent type I lineage because of its virulent clinical manifestations, its genotype is unclear. In the present study, genotyping of the KI-1 was performed by multilocus PCR-RFLP and microsatellite sequencing. For 9 genetic markers (c22-8, c29-2, L358, PK1, SAG2, SAG3, GRA6, BTUB, and Apico), the KI-1 and RH stra...