Chemosystematics is a common tool in systematics and taxonomy of extant plants.
Terpenoids have been found to be especially valuable for chemosystematic investigations of …

The annual production of hops (Humulus lupulus L.) exceeds 100,000 mt and is almost
exclusively consumed by the brewing industry. The value of hops is attributed to their …

Presilphiperfolan-8β-ol synthase, encoded by the BcBOT2 gene from the necrotrophic plant
pathogen Botrytis cinerea, catalyzes the multistep cyclization of farnesyl diphosphate (2) to …

Computer-aided rational design of the substrate binding pocket of sesquiterpene synthases
BcBOT2 from Botrytis cinerea yielded FPP cyclization products with presilphiperfolane …

Two new norsesquiterpenoids, nanonorcaryophyllenes A (1) and B (2), two new
diterpenoids, nanolobatins A (3) and B (4), and a novel norditerpenoid, nanolobatin C (5) …

Presilphiperfolanols constitute a family of biosynthetically important sesquiterpenes which
can rearrange to diverse sesquiterpenoid skeletons. While the origin of these natural …

Five new isocyano/isothiocyanato sesquiterpenes (1–5) with tri-or bicyclic carbon skeletons
have been characterized from Australian specimens of the nudibranch Phyllidia ocellata …

The isomerization of β-caryophyllene (3), under treatment with SeO2, is described. Chemical
correlations, between 3 14--hydroxy-β-caryophylllene (6z) from Juniperus oxycedrus, are …

Four new cytotoxic 8, 9-secokauranes have been identified from the liverwort Lepidolaena
taylorii. The 11-oxygenation found in three of these has not been encountered in the 8, 9 …

The solvolyses of caryophyllen-8β-yl p-nitrobenzoate (14-O p NB) and 15-norcaryophyllen-
8β-yl tosylate (15-OTs) were investigated as potential model reactions for the biogenesis of …