An in-depth study of the secondary metabolites contained in the Caribbean sponge Smenospongia aurea led to the isolation of smenamide A (1) and B (2), hybrid peptide/polyketide compounds containing a dolapyrrolidinone unit. Their structures were elucidated using high-resolution ESI-MS/MS and homo- and heteronuclear 2D NMR experiments. Structures of smenamides suggested that they are products of...

The plant species Pimpinella serbica (Vis.) Drude, endemic to West Balkans, belongs the genus L. (Apiaceae) according newer botanical classification. Initially, was described as Pancicia Vis. and long considered a monotypic genus. Previous phytochemical investigations of this were limited essential oil analysis by GC?MS method. This is first study that includes LC-DAD?MS screening extracts root...

standing 01 their Needs. New Lducation bellowship Monograph, No. 2. Obtainable from N.E.F., 50 Gloucester Place, London, W.l. Is. 6d. Here in a collection of three essays (Fatherless Children by Susan Isaacs, The Bereaved Wife, by Joan Riviere, What the Father means to a Child, by Ella Freeman Sharpe), is a beautiful refutation of the common indictment that psychologists think only in terms of ...