Testing for <em>Chlamydia trachomatis</em>: time trends in positivity rates in the canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland (Publications)
SUMMARY National health statistics report a 2ยท5-fold increase in laboratory-confirmed Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) cases over the last decade in Switzerland where no CT screening programme exists. We ob
Probing the peroxycarbenium [3+2] cycloaddition reactions with 1,2-disubstituted ethylenes: results and insights (Publications)
The causes for the title reaction to be limited to only the alkenes with an unsubstituted terminal alkenic carbon were explored. In some "failed" cases the cycloaddition products actually formed but r
Bacterial microbiota of the upper respiratory tract and childhood asthma (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Patients with asthma and healthy controls differ in bacterial colonization of the respiratory tract. The upper airways have been shown to reflect colonization of the lower airways, the act
Cyclombandakamines A1 and A2, oxygen-bridged naphthylisoquinoline dimers from a Congolese <em>Ancistrocladus liana</em> (Publications)
Cyclombandakamines A1 (1) and A2 (2), both with an unprecedented pyrane-cyclohexenone-dihydrofuran sequence and six stereocenters and two chiral axes, are the first oxygen-bridged dimeric naphthylisoq
Dioncophyllines C2, D2, and F and related naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids from the Congolese liana <em>Ancistrocladus ileboensis</em> with potent... (Publications)
Dioncophylline F (1), the first 5,8'-coupled dioncophyllaceous alkaloid (i.e., lacking an oxygen function at C-6 and possessing an R-configuration at C-3), was isolated from the recently described Con