Procedure in the synthesis of ethyllithium in an atmosphere of argon

Summary The procedure in the synthesis of ethyllithium in an atmosphere of argon is described.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 855–860, May, 1964     

Arsenic compounds in a marine food chain

A three-organism food chain within a rock pool at Rosedale, NSW, Australia, was investigated with respect to arsenic compounds by high performance liquid chromatography – hydraulic high pressure nebulization – inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (HPLC-HHPN-ICP-MS). Total arsenic concentration was determined in the seaweed Hormosira banksii (27.2 μg/g dry mass), in the gastropod Austrocochlea constricta (74.4 μg/g dry mass), which consumes the seaweed, and in the gastropod Morula marginalba (233 μg/g dry mass), which eats Austrocochlea constricta. The major arsenic compounds in the seaweed were (2′R)-dimethyl[1-O-(2′,3′-dihydroxypropyl)-5-deoxy-β-d-ribofuranos-5-yl]arsine oxide and an unidentified compound. The herbivorous gastropod Austrocochlea constricta transformed most of the arsenic taken up with the seaweed to arsenobetaine. Traces of arsenite, arsenate, dimethylarsinic acid, arsenocholine, the tetramethylarsonium cation, and several unknown arsenic compounds were detected. Arsenobetaine accounted for 95% of the arsenic in the carnivorous gastropod Morula marginalba. In Morula marginalba the concentration of arsenocholine was higher, and the concentrations of the minor arsenic compounds lower than in the herbivorous gastropod Austrocochlea constricta.     

Molecular and crystal structures of hemigossypolone and gossypolone

The results are given of an x-ray structural investigation of hemigossypolone isolated from the stems of a wiltinfected cotton plant and of gossypolone obtained by oxidizing gossypol.     

Molecular characteristics of subfractions of laminarin

Pacific Ocean Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 296–298, March–April, 1994.