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N-methylquinolinium 2-carboxylate, a defensive betaine from Photuris versicolor fireflies
A González1, F Schroeder, J Meinwald
1Section of Neurobiology and Behavior and Department of Chemistry, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA. ag29@cornell.edu
Journal of Natural Products
|March 17, 1999
Abstract:
From whole body extracts of Photuris versicolor fireflies, the defensive betaine N-methylquinolinium 2-carboxylate (1) was isolated and characterized on the basis of spectroscopic data and comparison with a synthetic sample.