A new inhibitor of leukotriene biosynthesis, (+)-10 alpha-hydroxy-4-muurolen-3-one (1), was isolated from fermentations of Favolaschia sp. 87129. Its structure was established by spectroscopic methods. The compound exhibited no antifungal or antibacterial activities. The effects of 1 on leukotriene biosynthesis were compared with (+)-T-cadinol, (-)-3-oxo-T-cadinol, and (+)-3 alpha-hydroxy-T-cad...

A facile total synthesis of three members of the bisabolane sesquiterpene family, namely (±)-curcumene, (±)-xanthorrhizol and (±)-curcuhydroquinone had been achieved in high overall yield. The synthesis used bromobenzene derivatives as starting materials. The halogen-lithium exchange followed by addition of isoprenylacetone and reduction of the obtained carbinols are the key steps of the synthe...

Ambient air ion size distributions have been measured continuously at the Finnish boreal forest site in Hyytiälä since spring 2003. In general, these measurements show a maximum of air ions below 1.0 nm in diameter. But this physical characterization does not provide any information about the ion’s chemical composition, which is one key question regarding the explanation of nucleation events ob...

Six new tremulane sesquiterpenes, conocenol A-D (2-5), conocenolide A (6), and conocenolide B (7), have been isolated from cultures of the basidiomycete Conocybe siliginea. The structures of 2-7 were elucidated by the analysis of spectroscopic data, including heteronuclear multiple-bond correlation, heteronuclear single-quantum coherence, and (1)H,(1)H correlation spectroscopy, and a comparison...