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Cover Picture: The Chemical Basis of Fungal Bioluminescence (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 28/2015)
Author(s) -
Purtov Konstantin V.,
Petushkov Valentin N.,
Baranov Mikhail S.,
Mineev Konstantin S.,
Rodionova Natalja S.,
Kaskova Zinaida M.,
Tsarkova Aleksandra S.,
Petunin Alexei I.,
Bondar Vladimir S.,
Rodicheva Emma K.,
Medvedeva Svetlana E.,
Oba Yuichi,
Oba Yumiko,
Arseniev Alexander S.,
Lukyanov Sergey,
Gitelson Josef I.,
Yampolsky Ilia V.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201505051
Subject(s) - chemistry , siloxane , molecule , stereochemistry , nanotechnology , materials science , polymer , organic chemistry
Glowing fungi were described by Aristotle as early as the fourth century B.C. In their Communication on page 8124 ff., I. V. Yampolsky, J. I. Gitelson, and co‐workers unveil the structure of fungal luciferin, a compound that is responsible for fungal biolumescence.