The serine protease inhibitors diethyl p-nitrophenyl phosphate and phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (chemical modifiers of serine residue) and N-acetyl-l-tryptophan ethyl ester (competitive inhibitor of chymotryptic protease) inhibited 1-O-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (AGEPC; platelet-activating factor)-induced platelet aggregation and secretion. The inhibition was dependent on the p...

Aprotic diazotization of anthranilic acid with isoamylnitrite or amylnitrite gave benzenediazonium-2- carboxylate. Subsequent thermal decomposition of this diazonium salt (in situ) in 1,2-dichloroethane as a solvent at 85OC and in the presence of 2,5-diethyl-3,4-diphenylcyclopentadienonaes a trapping agent gave 1,4-diethyl-2, 3-diphenylnaphthalene in high yield, after loss of carbon monoxid...

The producing strain Streptomyces sp. 1010 was isolated from a shallow sea sediment from the region of Livingston Island, Antarctica. From the culture broth of this strain naturally active secondary metabolites were isolated identical to phthalic acid diethyl ester (C12H14O4, MW. 222); 1, 3-bis (3-phenoxyphenoxy)benzene (C30H22O4, MW.446); hexanedioic acid dioctyl ester (C22H42O4, MW.370) and t...