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TABLE 2 {Continued) 



Miscellaneous Metabolic Products of Fungi 



[From Iwanoff and Zwetkoff (1936), Birkinshaw (1937), Lockwood and Moyer 

 (1938), Raistrick (1938, 1940), and Others] 



Product 



Sulfur substances 

 Thiourea 



Cyclic choline ' 



Chlorine substances 



Caldariomycin ' (2 : 2-dich- 



lorocyclopentane-1 ; 3- 



diol) 

 M.P. 121°C. 



Erdin « 

 M.P. 211°C. 

 Geodin ^ 

 M.P. 235°C. 

 Griseofulvin ' 

 M.P. 218°-219°C. 



Formula 



HjN-CS-NHz 



(CH3) 3N • CH2 • CH2O • SO2 



I O ^ 



CI2 



I 



c 



HCOH 



HoC- 



HCOH 



-CH2 



Ci6H706(OCH3)Cl2 

 Cl6H606(OCH3)2Cl2 



OCH3 



H3C0 



v\ /\y 



CI o 



^o 



CH3 

 COOCH3 



Produced By 



Verticillium albo-atrum, 



Botrytis cinerea 

 Aspergillus sydoxoi 



Caldariomyces {Fumago) 



Aspergillus terreus 

 Aspergillus terreus 

 Penicillium griseo-fulvum 



Arsenic and selenium sub- 

 stances " 

 Dimethyl-n-propylarsine 

 Dimethyl selenide 

 Trimethylarsine 



(CH3)2-AS-(C3H7) 



Se-(CH3)2 



As- (CH3)3 



Penicillium brevicaule 



Miscellaneous substances 

 Mellein or ochracin 

 M.P. 58°C. 



O 



II 

 OH C 



Penicillium griseo- 

 fulvum, Aspergillus 

 melleus, Aspergillus 

 ochraceus 



\/" 



-CH* C2H6 



« Woolley and Peterson (1937). 



' Clutterbuck, Mukhopadhyay, Oxford, and Raistrick (1940). 



^Calam, Clutterbuck, Oxford, and Raistrick (1939). 



8 Oxford, Raistrick, and Simonart (1939). 



" Thorn and Raper (1932), Challenger and Rawlings (1936). 



