Discovery of a Pyrazine in a Natural Product : Tetramethylpyrazine from Cultures of a Strain of Bacillus subtilis
Abstract
WHILE investigating products in cultures of a strain of Bacillus subtilis, we obtained a crystalline substance which sublimed very easily even at ordinary temperature and had the characteristic smell of fermented soybean.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- February 1962
- DOI:
- 10.1038/193776a0
- Bibcode:
- 1962Natur.193..776K