The relative stability of the siliconbromidechlorides is discussed on the timedependence of the dismutation reaction of SiCl3Br, on the measured appearence potentials of SiCl3, from SiCl3Br and SiCl4 respectively and on the enthalpies of the hydrolysis reactions. The relative strengths of the Si-Br-bonds of the different compounds were estimated, using SiCl4 as a standard.
A wide variety of enzymatic pathways that produce specialized metabolites in bacteria, fungi and plants are known to be encoded in biosynthetic gene clusters. Information about these clusters, pathways and metabolites is currently dispersed throughout the literature, making it difficult to exploit. To facilitate consistent and systematic deposition and retrieval of data on biosynthetic gene clusters, we propose the Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster (MIBiG) data standard.