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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1972 - Ernest Guenther Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)

Overview

Guy Ourisson is affiliated with the University of Strasbourg in France. Their academic profile reflects a career connected to this institution.

Guy Ourisson has been recognized with the Ernest Guenther Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 1972.

Best Publications

  • The Hopanoids: palaeochemistry and biochemistry of a group of natural products

    G. Ourisson;Pierre Albrecht;M. Rohmer

  • Distribution of Hopanoid Triterpenes in Prokaryotes

    Michel Rohmer;Pierrette Bouvier-Nave;Guy Ourisson

  • Prokaryotic Hopanoids and other Polyterpenoid Sterol Surrogates

    G Ourisson;M Rohmer;K Poralla

  • Predictive microbial biochemistry — from molecular fossils to procaryotic membranes

    Guy Ourisson;Pierre Albrecht;Michel Rohmer

  • Hopanoids. 1. Geohopanoids: the most abundant natural products on Earth?

    Guy Ourisson;Pierre Albrecht

  • The Microbial Origin of Fossil Fuels

    Guy Ourisson;Pierre Albrecht;Michel Rohmer

  • Molecular evolution of biomembranes: structural equivalents and phylogenetic precursors of sterols

    Michel Rohmer;Pierrette Bouvier;Guy Ourisson

  • The terpenoid theory of the origin of cellular life: the evolution of terpenoids to cholesterol

    Guy Ourisson;Yoichi Nakatani

  • Differential effects of plant sterols on water permeability and on acyl chain ordering of soybean phosphatidylcholine bilayers.

    Isabelle Schuler;Alain Milon;Yoichi Nakatani;Guy Ourisson

  • Hopanoids. 2. Biohopanoids: a novel class of bacterial lipids

    Guy Ourisson;Michel Rohmer

  • Attraction of the parasitic mite varroa to the drone larvae of honey bees by simple aliphatic esters.

    Yves Le Conte;Gérard Arnold;Jérôme Trouiller;Claudine Masson

  • IUPAC Chemical Data Series

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  • Delta8(14)-steroids in the bacterium Methylococcus capsulatus.

    P Bouvier;M Rohmer;P Benveniste;G Ourisson

  • Novel tricyclic terpanes (C19, C20) in sediments and petroleums

    F.R. Aquino Neto;A. Restle;J. Connan;P. Albrecht

  • Cytotoxic components of Zingiber zerumbet, Curcuma zedoaria and C. domestica.

    H.W.D. Matthes;B. Luu;G. Ourisson

  • Tri- and tetraterpenoid hydrocarbons in the Messel oil shale

    B.J Kimble;J.R Maxwell;R.P Philp;G Eglinton

  • Degraded and extended hopane derivatives (C27 to C35) as ubiquitous geochemical markers

    A.Van Dorsselaer;A. Ensminger;C. Spyckerelle;M. Dastillung

  • Biogenic Substances in Sediments and Fossils

    Pierre Albrecht;Guy Ourisson

  • Les acides ganoderiques tàz : triterpenes cytotoxiques de Ganoderma lucidum (Polyporacée)

    Jorge O. Toth;Bang Luu;Guy Ourisson

  • Hopanoids from C 30 to C 35 in recent muds

    M. Rohmer;M. Dastillung;G. Ourisson

  • Organization of Carotenoid‐Phospholipid Bilayer Systems. Incorporation of Zeaxanthin, Astaxanthin, and Their C50 Homologues into Dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine Vesicles.

    A. Milon;G. Wolff;G. Ourisson;Y. Nakatani

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Albrecht
Pierre Albrecht University of Strasbourg
Michel Rohmer
Michel Rohmer University of Strasbourg
Andrew E. Greene
Andrew E. Greene Joseph Fourier University
Yves Le Conte
Yves Le Conte INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
James R. Maxwell
James R. Maxwell University of Bristol
Karl O. Stetter
Karl O. Stetter University of Regensburg
Kenichi Yoshikawa
Kenichi Yoshikawa Doshisha University
Katsuhiko Ariga
Katsuhiko Ariga National Institute for Materials Science
Kazunari Akiyoshi
Kazunari Akiyoshi Kyoto University

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