Absolute configuration of the creatonotines and callimorphines, two classes of arctiid-specific pyrrolizidine alkaloids

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 80-89

  Beuerle, Till ^a   Theuring, Claudine ^a   Klewer, Nico ^a   Schulz, Stefan ^a   Hartmann, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctiidae; Callimorphine; Creatonotine; Enantioselective separation; Estigmene acrea; Grammia geneura; Insect alkaloid; Pyrrolizidine alkaloid processing

Indexed keywords

PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIFE CYCLE; MOTH;

ANIMALS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOTHS; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS;

ARCTIIDAE; ESTIGMENE ACREA; GRAMMIA GENEURA; INSECTA;

EID: 33845407968     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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