Methods for hydrolyzing and solvolyzing conjugated bile acid sulfates were compared on reference mixtures of conjugated and unconjugated bile acid sulfates gas-liquid chromatography to assess recovery, and thin-layer chromatography and zonal scanning to define the products occurring after hydrolysis. Conventional methods in which solvolysis preceded vigorous alkaline saponification gave incompl...

[1] Despite in situ analyses by several landers, the composition of the Martian soil remains unclear. Recently, constituent minerals in the soil have been proposed from thermal emissivity and Mössbauer spectroscopic data from Mars. These data were interpreted to show spectral evidence for carbonate and an unspecified mineral containing bound water, as well as olivine. Here we present an alterna...

De Meio and Lewycka (1) have obtained indirect evidence that conjugation of dehydroisoandrosterone with sulfuric acid occurs in a system consisting of microsome-free supernatant fluid of rat liver, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and magnesium and sulfate ions. They showed that, following incubation, some of the Zimmermann-positive material remains in the aqueous phase after ether extraction at p...