title: Rapid detection of chlorinated bisbibenzyls in Bazzania trilobata using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry.
abstract: Chlorinated bisbibenzyls of the bazzanin type are detected in crude bryophyte plant extracts of Bazzania trilobata from different locations using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. These results show that these chlorinated compounds are not artefacts of an incidental occurrence or of the sample preparation but are genuine and produced by the liverwort or an endosymbiotic metabolism. Further experiments were performed concerning the in vitro chlorination of the halogen free basic unit isoplagiochin C.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany. anspeich@mx.uni.saarland.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Speicher
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hollemeyer
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Heinzle
mesh_terms: D010944:Plants / Q000737:chemistry*; D011078:Polychlorinated Biphenyls / Q000032:analysis*; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D011078:Polychlorinated Biphenyls