Pfizer Handbook of Microbial Metabolites 462 



cillium notatum, Absidia ramosa, Boletus edulls, Yeasts 



Niels Nielsen, Biochem. Z. 237 244 (1931); 249 196 (1932). 



Fritz Kogl and D. G. F. R. Kostermans with A. J. Haagen- 

 Smit and H. Erxleben, Z. phijsiol. Chem. 228 113 (1934). 



Kenneth V. Thimann, /. Biol. Chem. 109 279 (1935). 



Donald J. Cram and Max Tishler, /. Am. Chem. Soc. 70 

 4238 (1948). (Isolation) 



Ryuichi Honda, Japanese Patent 603 (1950). 



935 Serotonin ( 5-Hydroxytryptamine ) , C10H12ON2 (Hydrochloride), 

 colorless crystals, m.p. 167°. 



HO CH2CH2NH2 



Oj 



H 



Panaeolus campanulatus 



Demonstrated by paper chromatography only. 



Varro E. Taylor, Jr., Science 128 718 (1958). 



936 Psilocin, CjsHigONs, colorless crystals, m.p. 173-176° (dec). 



H 

 O 



CH2CHoN(CH3 



Psilocybe species 



Psilocin is a minor constituent of the mushrooms which 

 contain psilocybin. 



A. Hofmann and F. Troxler, Experientia 15 101 (1959). 



937 Psilocybin, C12H17O4N2P, colorless crystals, m.p. 185-195° 

 (dec). 



OH 



o=p— o® 

 o 



OJ 



CH3 



@/ 



CH2CH2N 



\ 



CH3 



