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TL;DR: These guidelines are presented for the selection and interpretation of methods for use by investigators who aim to examine macroautophagy and related processes, as well as for reviewers who need to provide realistic and reasonable critiques of papers that are focused on these processes.

TL;DR: The prezizaane sesquiterpene angustisepalin has been isolated from the aerial parts of Illicium angust isepalum, and its structure determined by 2D-NMR spectroscopy.

TL;DR: The absolute stereochemistry of the epoxide group in alpinia epoxide has been determined by simultaneous reduction of the aldehyde and epoxide functional groups in this molecule to primary and secondary alcohols, followed by selective protection of the primary alcohol and derivitization of the secondary alcohol with S(+) and R(-) MTPCl as Mosher esters.

TL;DR: The absolute stereochemistry of the epoxide group in alpinia epoxide [14,15-epoxylabda-8(17),12-dien-16-al (E)] has been determined by simultaneous reduction of the aldehyde and epoxide functional groups in this molecule to primary and secondary alcohols, followed by selective protection of the primary alcohol and derivitization of the secondary alcohol with S(+) and R(−) MTPCl as Mosher esters as discussed by the authors.