H. W. A. Biessels
Utrecht University
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Journal of Insect Physiology | 1980
L. Huibregtse-Minderhoud; M.A.M. Van den Hondel-Franken; A.C. Van der Kerk-Van Hoof; H. W. A. Biessels; Cornelis A. Salemink; D.J. Van der Horst; A.M.Th. Beenakkers
Simultaneous quantitative determination of the three naturally occurring juvenile hormones in insects (JH-I, JH-II and JH-III) was performed on haemolymph samples of both normally developing locusts and locusts implanted with active corpora allata, using capillary gas chromatography with electron capture detection. In fourth instar female larvae, 24–48 hr after the third ecdysis, as well as in adult females, 18 days after the imaginal ecdysis, only JH-III was detected. In fifth instar female larvae JH-III was present in very low concentrations, if at all. After implantation of four pairs of corpora allata taken from young fourth instar female larvae or one pair or corpora allata taken from adult females into fifth instar female larvae 0–24 hr after ecdysis, an elevation of the JH-III titre was observed. Neither JH-I nor JH-II could be detected. The amount of JH-III, already elevated 2 hr after implantation, remained high for several days in comparison to that of control insects. On the third day after the subsequent moult the JH-III level was comparable to that of normally developing fifth instar larvae. Factors involved in the achievement of the haemolymph JH-titre are discussed.
Phytochemistry | 1974
H. W. A. Biessels; Antonetta C. van der Kerk-van Hoof; Jacoba J. Kettenes-van den Bosch; Cornelis A. Salemink
Abstract The leaves of Prunus serotina and P. lusitanica contain a new triterpene, 2α,3α-dihydroxyurs-12-en-28-oic acid, isolated in form of its methyl ester. Other triterpenes present in these species are ursolic acid and ursol aldehyde. P. lusitanica also yields friedeline.
Journal of Chromatography A | 1980
L. Huibregtse-Minderhout; A.C. van der Kerk-van Hoof; P. Wijkens; H. W. A. Biessels; Cornelis A. Salemink
A gas chromatographic method has been developed for the simultaneous quantitative determination of the juvenile hormones I, II and III (JH-I, JH-II and JH-III) in insects. After extraction and partial purification the hormones are converted into their 10-heptafluorobutyryl-11-methoxy derivatives and analysed as such by gas chromatography. The gas chromatographic system consists of an all-glass moving needle injector, a glass capillary column and an electron-capture detector. JH-I, JH-II and JH-III can be determined simultaneously in amounts as low as 0.5, 0.3 and 0.2 ng, respectively, per sample. The 10-heptafluorobutyryl-11-methoxy derivatives were selected after an extensive comparative study of potentially suitable halogenated derivatives. Geometrical stereoisomers of the juvenile hormones are used as internal standards.
Phytochemistry | 1985
Hubert G. Theuns; Richard H.A.M. Janssen; H. W. A. Biessels; Cornelis A. Salemink
Abstract Two non-alkaloidal constituents were identified in Papaver bracteatum: O-methyl-α-thebaol and 10-n-nonacosanol. O-Methyl-α-thebaol is a new natural compound. The presence of isothebaine is confirmed. Lanthanide-induced chemical shifts can be used for the assignments of the 13C NMR chemical shifts of isothebaine and phenanthrenes. The use of lanthanide-induced chemical shifts in the identification of methoxyl resonances in 1H NMR is discussed.
Journal of The Chemical Society-perkin Transactions 1 | 1984
Hubert G. Theuns; Richard H.A.M. Janssen; H. W. A. Biessels; Francesco Menichini; Cornelis A. Salemink
From Papaver bracteatum an unusual alkaloid is isolated: 6,7,8,9,10,14-hexadehydro-4,5-epoxy-3,6-di-methoxy-17-methylthebinan (1). This alkaloid is also obtained from the mixture of rearrangement products of one of the thebaine N-oxides. The structure of another constituent of the latter mixture is deduced to be 6,7,8,9,10,14-hexadehydro-3,6-dimethoxythebinan-4-ol (15). The presence of both thebaine N-oxides in Papaver bracteatum is confirmed, and their structures are revised on chemical and spectroscopic grounds.
Phosphorus Sulfur and Silicon and The Related Elements | 2000
Lambert Brandsma; O. Bj⊘rlo; A.C. Van der Kerk-Van Hoof; H. W. A. Biessels; J. Schuring; H. D. Verkruijsse
Abstract Addition of two mol equivalents of t-butyl alcohol to a mixture of powdered arsenic and three mol equivalents of lithium in liquid ammonia gives a suspension of lithium arsenide LiAsH2. Subsequent addition of a large excess of t-butyl alcohol and n-octyl iodide at very low temperatures affords n-octyl arsine in -65% yield.
Phytochemistry | 1989
Richard H.A.M. Janssen; Peter Wijkens; Cor Kruk; H. W. A. Biessels; Francesco Menichini; Hubert G. Theuns
Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des Pays-Bas | 2010
L. Huibregtse-Minderhoud; A. C. van der Kerk‐Van Hoof; P. Wijkens; H. W. A. Biessels; Cornelis A. Salemink
Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry | 1984
Hubert G. Theuns; Richard H.A.M. Janssen; H. W. A. Biessels; Cornelis A. Salemink
ChemInform | 1984
H. G. Theuns; R. H. A. M. Janssen; H. W. A. Biessels; F. Menichini; Cornelis A. Salemink