Anti-Inflammatory Sesquiterpenes from Fruiting Bodies of .

, a fleshy fungus, is an important medicinal and food-homologous mushroom in China. In this work, eight undescribed sesquiterpenes schizomycins A-H (-) and one new meroterpenoid schizomycin I () together with three known analogues (-) were isolated from fruiting bodies of . Their planar structures were established by extensive spectroscopic and mass spectrometric data.

Effect of high-temperature thermal hydrolysis on rheological properties and dewaterability of sludge.

The disposal processes like dewatering and anaerobic digestion (AD) are commonly utilized to reduce the volume of sludge and recover energy. Thermal hydrolysis process is widely used as a pretreatment for sludge AD, which can change rheological properties and dehydration of sludge irreversibly. The experiment was designed to evaluate the effect of high-temperature thermal hydrolysis (120, 130, 145, 160 and 170°C) for 60 min on sludge rheological properties, as well as its dewaterability.

α-Glucosidase Inhibitors: Diphenyl Ethers and Phenolic Bisabolane Sesquiterpenoids from the Mangrove Endophytic Fungus QQSG-3.

Two new diphenyl ethers ( and ) and four new phenolic bisabolane sesquiterpenoids (⁻), together with five known related derivatives, were isolated from the culture of the endophytic fungus QQSG-3 obtained from a fresh branch of , which was collected from Huizhou city in the province of Guangdong, China. The structures of compounds ⁻ were determined by analyzing NMR and HRESIMS data. The absolute configurations of and were assigned by comparing their experimental ECD spectra with those reported for similar compounds in the literature.

Dichloroisocoumarins with Potential Anti-Inflammatory Activity from the Mangrove Endophytic Fungus Ascomycota sp. CYSK-4.

Three new isocoumarins-dichlorodiaportintone (), desmethyldichlorodiaportintone () and desmethyldichlorodiaportinol ()-as well as six known analogues () were isolated from the culture of the mangrove endophytic fungus sp. CYSK-4 from . Their structures were elucidated by analysis of spectroscopic data.