Simple brominated phenols in the bluegreen algaCalothrix brevissimaWest

✍ Scribed by Marianne Pedersén; Edgar J. DaSilva

• Book ID: 104750820
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 207 KB
• Volume: 115
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0032-0935
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00388608

✦ Synopsis

Through the use of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry techniques two simple brominated phenols, 2,3-dibromo-4,5-dihydroxybenzyl alcohol (lanosol) and 3,5-dibromo-p-hydroxybenzyl alcohol, were identified in an axenieally cultured bluegreen alga, Calothrix brevissima. The alga was grown in a mineral