Marine Laboratory, University of Guam, Mangilao, Guam 96923.
Org Lett. 2009 Mar 5;11(5):1111-4. doi: 10.1021/ol8027785.
The rim of the tunic of the flatworm Pseudoceros indicus is characterized by blue dots on a white background. The isolation and structure elucidation of the blue pigment is reported. It is shown by extensive analysis of spectroscopic data to be an indolic azafulvene, which has been named pseudocerosine.
印度拟态涡虫外套膜的边缘呈白色背景上的蓝色斑点。报告了蓝色色素的分离和结构解析。通过广泛的光谱数据分析表明,它是一种吲哚氮杂薁,被命名为拟态涡虫素。