Asparagopsis taxiformis

Marshall RA, Hamilton JTG, Dring MJ, Harper DB (2000) The Red Alga Asparagopsis taxiformis/Falkenbergia hillebrandii - A Possible Source of Trichloroethylene and Perchloroethylene Limnol Oceanogr 45 516... 

Woolard FX, Moore RE, Roller PP (1979) Halogenated Acetic and Acrylic Acids from the Red Alga Asparagopsis taxiformis. Phytochemistry 18 617... 

Sugano M, Sato A, Nagaki H, Yoshioka S, Shiraki T, Horikoshi H (1990) Aldose Reductase Inhibitors from the Red Alga, Asparagopsis taxiformis. Tetrahedron Lett 31 7015... 

Burreson, B. J., Moore, R. E., and Roller, P. P., Volatile halogen compounds in the alga Asparagopsis taxiformis (Rhodophyta), J. Agricul. Food Chem., 24, 856, 1976. 

Asparagopsis taxiformis is an edible red seaweed that grows on the edges of reefs in areas of constant water motion. Almost 100 different organic halides have been isolated from this source. 

EVIDENCE FOR THE PRESENCE OF CARBONYL DRODIDE IN THE ESSENTIAL OIL OF Asparagopsis taxiformis... 

Constit. of the red alga Asparagopsis taxiformis. Needles (H2O or EtOH), prisms (Et20). Mp 79-80°. Steam-volatile. Subl. 

Constit. of the red seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis. Burreson, B.J. et al, J. Agric. Food Chem., 1976, 24, 856 isol)... 

Fenical W (1974) Polyhaloketones from the red seaweed. Tetrahedron Lett 51/52 4463-4466 Moore RE, Woolard FX, Roller P (1977) Halogenated acetamides, acetic acids, ataylic acids, but-3-en-2-ols and isopropanols from the red aigA Asparagopsis taxiformis. Presented at the regional meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, Calif, (in died ref McConnell and Feudal 1979)... 

Fenical, W. (1974) Polyhaloketones from the red seaweed Asparagopsis taxiformis. Tetrahedron Lett., 15, 4463-4466. 

Woolard, F.X., Moore, R.E., and Roller, P.P. (1976) Halogenated acetamides, but-3-en-2-ols and isopropanols from Asparagopsis taxiformis (Delille) Trev, Tetrahedron Lett., 17, 2843-2846. 

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