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Department of Chemistry, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. 

PENELOPE J. BROTHERS (223), Department of Chemistry, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand... 

Yagi, M. and Kai, K. (1990) Hydrothermal alteration in the Fushime geothermal field Kyushu, Japan. Twelfth N. 2. Geothermal Workshop, University of Auckland, 31-33. 

P.J.B. is grateful to the University of Auckland for the award of sabbatical leave in 1993. The authors are grateful to Professor D. L. Reger for providing material in advance of publication. P.P.P. thanks the NSF and PRF for financial support. 

VOLKER R W. BOHM (1), Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 PENELOPE J. BROTHERS (289), Department of Chemistry, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand... 

Flavone-8-acetic acid (117) Flavone derivative ASA404 (DMXAA, ASA1404) (118) Oncology Vascular targeting and angiogenesis inhibition Phase III Antisoma (University of Auckland)/ Novartis 709-713... 

Dr. Gordon Rewcastle of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and your Editor have covered the chemistry of sp -carbanions as generated in the vicinity of heterocyclic nitrogen atoms, a field that has expanded immensely in the last several years. 

Gordon Rewcastle obtained his PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Auckland in 1978, and after post-doctoral study in the U.S., he joined the Auckland Cancer Society s Research Laboratory as a medicinal chemist in 1980. Since then has participated in a number of antibacterial and anticancer drug development projects, and is the author or co-author of over 100 scientific papers and patents in the anticancer area. In all, he has made significant contributions to the development of six of the eight anticancer drugs to have gone to clinical trial from the Auckland Cancer Centre. 

In an initial survey at the University of Auckland in 2004 on Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Malbec wines, subject to MOX in 2000-L tanks at 4-8 mg/L/month for 12 weeks post-MLF, no changes were seen in the aroma profiles of the wines (vs. controls) for a wide range of aroma compounds, including herbaceous methoxypyrazines and C6 alcohols, floral terpenes and (3-ionone, or for fruity esters and higher alcohols (Rowdon, 2005). Likewise, the concentrations of the varietal thiol 3MH,... 

The impact of MOX upon reductive aromas is being exanained in a further research project at the University of Auckland, using SPME GC-MS (Nguyen et ah, 2010). The wines subject to MOX, or stored in an 02-permeable Flextank, recorded lower concentrations of compoimds such as methanethiol (aroma of cooked cabbage, with a perception threshold of 0.3 pg/L Mestres et al., 2000), and 3-(methylthio)-l-propanol... 

J. M. Herbert carried out his PhD research with associate professor P.D. Woodgate and Dr. W.A. Denny at the University of Auckland, into the synthesis and reactions of perimidine derivatives. He then carried out postdoctoral research with Dr. R.J.K. Taylor at the University of East Anglia on the reactions of pyrylium salts, before moving into Industry. He is presently a team leader in the Isotope Chemistry and Metabolite Synthesis Department of sanofi-aventis in Alnwick, UK. 

O Sullivan, M. J., Bullivant, D. P., Mannington, W. I. Fellows, S. E. 1998. Modelling of the Wairakei-Tauhara geothermal system. In Proceedings 20th New Zealand Geothermal Workshop, University of Auckland, 59-66. 

Sherburn, S., Allis, R. Clotworthy, A. 1990. Microseismic activity at Wairakei and Ohaaki geothermal fields. In Proceedings 12th New Zealand Geothermal Workshop, University of Auckland, 51-55. 

Harper, R. T. Jordan, O. T. 1985. Geochemical changes in response to production and re-injection for Palimpinon-I geothermal field, Negros Oriental, Philippines. Proceedings of the New Zealand Geothermal Workshop, University of Auckland, Auckland, 39-44. 

Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Auckland Medical School, Auckland John R. Horn, PharmD, FCCP... 

Department of Chemistry, University of Auckland, Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand Professor D. G. Tuck... 

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