Botanical chemistry

These distinctions of botanical chemistry are important to this story because of a challenging question R. Gordon Wasson posed to Albert Hofmann in July 1975 "whether Early Man in ancient Greece could have hit on a method to isolate an hallucinogen from ergot that would have given him an experience comparable to LSD or psilocybin ... 

Materia medica, Vegetable—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Botanical chemistry—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Plant products—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 

Metabolism, Secondary. 3. Botanical chemistry. I. Wink, Michael. 

Akiyama, Y., Mori, M. Kato, K. (1980) C-NMR Analysis of Hydroxyproline Arabinosides from Nicotiana tabacum Agricultural and Botanical Chemistry, 44, 2487-489... 

Botanical chemistry. I. Stumpf, Paul Karl, Date II. Conn, Eric E. 

Diterpenes. 2. Angiosperms—Composition. 3. Angiosperms—Classification. 4. Botanical chemistry. 5. Plant chemotaxonomy. 

Raymond-Hamet has published, with a bibliography, a critical historical account of the botany and chemistry of pereiro bark, the botanical source of which he suggests should be named Geissospermum Iceve (Vellozo) Baillon. There seems to be some doubt as to whether vellosine was actually obtained from this species. 

Wagner H (1973) The Chemistry of Resin Glycosides of the Convolvulaceae Family. In Bendz G, Santensson J (eds) Medicine and Natural Sciences. Chemistry in Botanical Classification. Academic Press, New York, p 235 12. Mannich C, Schumann P (1938) Uber Jalapenharz und dessen Hauptbestandteil, das Con-volvulin. Arch Pharm Ber Dtsch Pharm Ges 276 211... 

Bate-Smith, E.C, In "Chemistry in Botanical Classification" Bendz, G. Santesson, J., Eds. Academic Press New York, 1973 pp. 93-102. 

The pavine and isopavine alkaloids of the Papaveraceae have been discussed in Vols. 4, 10, 12, and 17 of this treatise (2-5), and only brief references have been made to occurrences outside this botanical family. Individual chapters have been devoted to the pavine and isopavine alkaloids in the two books by Shamma (6,7), covering developments until 1977, and also in Rodd s Chemistry of Carbon Compounds (8), published in 1978. A listing of naturally known pavines and isopavines up to 1975, with references to physical and spectral data, appeared in Kametani s Chemistry of the Isoquinoline Alkaloids 9,10). A more recent compilation by Gozler and co-workers 11) has covered references to mid-1982. Relevant literature has also been summarized regularly in Vols. I-XIII of Spe-... 

Guillaume-Franeois Rouelle, 1703—1770. Parisian apothecary. Former inspector-general of die pharmacy at the City Hospital. Demonstrator in chemistry at the Royal Botanical Garden. Member of the Royal Academies of Science of Paris and Stockholm and of the Electoral Academy of Erfurt. Born in the village of Mathieu two leagues from Caen September 16, 1703, died at Passy Aug. 3, 1770. (Translated from the French caption on the frame.) See also ref. (62). 

I. B. Balfour also thought it strange that Dr. Rutherford should have been chosen to teach botany, and stated in the Makers of British Botany that Rutherford was a chemist, and I have not discovered in any references to him expressions that he was at this period of his life interested in plants otheiwise than as objects for his experiments in relation to the chemistry of the atmosphere (32). Nevertheless, tile botanical garden developed under Rutherford s administration into one of the best in the world, and the plants of Scotland were carefully recorded by the head gardeners (32). 

I received yesterday the diploma which the Mineralogical Society at Jena intended for me and which you were so kind as to send me. I hasten to give you my heartiest thanks and to ask you to express my gratitude to the famous Society for this honor and to assure it that I shall strive to the best of my ability to live up to your mutual aims. At present, to be sure, I am so occupied with the duties of my office, traveling, and botanical work that I scarcely have time to think of other activities, and my field is not so much mineralogy as botany and chemistry however, since I hope to find much worthy of notice on my trips... 

The BRT experts serve as members of the review teams, and provide scientific opinion on the botanical drug product in a role similar to that of other disciplines such as chemistry. 

Knudsen, J. T. and Tollsten, L. (1993). Trends in floral scent chemistry in pollination syndromes floral scent composition in moth-pollinated taxa. Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society 113 263-284. 

He was a member of the American Chemical Society, and of its Carbohydrate Division (Chairman, 1972-1973) and its Cellulose, Paper, and Textile Division (Chairman, 1971-1972). He was also a member of The Chemical Society (London), The Society of the Sigma Xi, the Combustion Institute, the Torrey Botanical Club, the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, and the Montana Academy of Sciences. He served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis and the Journal of Wood Chemistry and Technology. He chaired a number of symposia and conferences, including the July, 1983, Gordon Conference on Analytical Pyrolysis. Through election by the University of Montana faculty, he served on the Faculty Senate and on the Executive Committee of the Senate. In 1980, he was awarded the University of Montana s first Distinguished Research Award. 

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