Confirmation of the structures of gonyautoxins I–IV by correlation with saxitoxin

Y Shimizu, CP Hsu

Index: Shimizu, Yuzuru; Hsu, Chien P. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1981 , # 7 p. 314 - 315

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Abstract

THE gonyautoxins were first isolated as toxic components responsible for the North Atlantic paralytic shellfish poisoning.l12 Since then they have been reported in a number of shellfish poisoning samples and the causative dinoflagellates, Gonyaulax spp. To date nine toxins, gonyautoxins I-VIII and neosaxitoxin, have been isolated in addition to the previously reported saxitoxin (1) .394 In 1976, we proposed that gonyautoxin I1 and I11 were epimeric 1 ...