Although the hybrid discipline of biochemical systematics has been a distinct field of study for only about ten years, it has had a telling impact on taxonomic practice. Nevertheless, the chemical approach, with its emphasis on the exact, tends to exlude much of the wealth of natural phenomena that are the backbone of taxonomy. It is necessary for the chemist and biochemist to acquire a better ...

In this study, the chemical composition of essential oils obtained from aerial parts Thymus longicaulis subsp. naturally grown in Turkey were analyzed by GC and GC-MS differences terms chemotaxonomy discussed. The main compounds T. 1,8-cineole (30.1%), linalool (18.0%), β-pinene (17.3%) (E)-β-ocimene (%12.6%) Hierarchical cluster analysis was performed examining oil studies 34 samples belonging...

Chemical plant taxonomy or chemotaxonomy of plants may be defined as a sciertific investigation of the potentialities of chemical characters for the study of problems of plant taxonomy and plant phylogeny. Plant taxonomy is the science of delimiting, describing and naming appropriately taxat and arranging them in a natural system of plants. Principles of chemotaxonomy were elaborated in the pas...

Recent studies have investigated the composition of compounds that cover the cuticle in social insects, but few studies have focused on solitary bees. Cuticular hydrocarbons may provide a tool for chemotaxonomy, and perhaps they can be used as a complement to morphology and genetic characters in phylogenetic studies. Orchid bees (Tribe Euglossini) are a highly diverse group of Neotropical bees ...

Four new compounds were isolated from the branches of Piper montealegreanum Yuncker, a shrub found in the Amazon rainforest, including two new dihydrochalcones named claricine (1) and maisine (2), a cinnamic acid derivative 3 and a phenylalkanoid 4, along with a porphyrin identified as the known compound phaeophytin a (5). The structures were established using spectroscopic experiments, includi...

Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GCxGC) offers an interesting tool for profiling bacterial fatty acids. Flow modulated GCxGC using a commercially available system was evaluated, different parameters such as column flows and modulation time were optimized. The method was tested on bacterial fatty acid methyl esters (BAMEs) from Stenotrophomonas maltophilia LMG 958T by using para...