From: Ben Norwood Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: The Complete Ascii Vitamin Set Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 02:58:26 +0000 Organization: Virtually non-existant - OK? Lines: 368 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: xena.dcs.aber.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: dyfi.aber.ac.uk 948509985 19690 193.60.15.5 (22 Jan 2000 02:59:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@aber.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Jan 2000 02:59:45 GMT X-Sender: bdn95@xena X-No-Archive: Yes Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!skynet.be!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!server4.netnews.ja.net!aber!xena!bdn95 Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:7991 Righteo then, since the subject of chemical structures has resurfaced, and it's cold/flu season, I thought I'd have a go at the entire vitamin set, and to spice it up, a bit of biochemical trivia as well :) H3C CH3 CH3 CH3 `.,' | | CH2OH ,'`. ,'\\,'\\,'\\,'\\,' | || `..' `. CH3 H3C CH3 CH3 CH3 `.,' | | CH2OH ,'`. ,'\\ ,'\\ ,'\\ ,'\\ ,' ,' `, ,' \\,' \\,' \\,' \\,' | :| | :| `. ,' `. `..' `. CH3 Vitamin A - retinol Amongst other uses in the body, combines with the protein opsin to form rhodopsin (visual purple) in the eye's rod (night-vision) cells. H3C H3C CH3 CH3 CH3 `.,'`, `.,' | | || | ,'`. ,'\\,'\\,'\\,'\\,'\\,'\\,'\\,'\\,'\\,'`.,' | || | | ,'`, `..' `. CH3 CH3 H3C CH3 CH3 Pro Vitamin A - Beta-carotene Pro-vitamins are precursors of vitamins that can be converted by the body into the 'normal' vitamin. Beta-carotene is one of the most famous of these (yes, eating carrots *can* theoretically improve your night-vision), and is often used as a yellow/orange food colourant. -oOo-oOo-oOo- The B Group Vitamins - also known as 'Vitamin B Complex'. There are currently six numbered vitamins and two unnumbered vitamins in this group. The complex of vitamins was discovered in yeast, and were originally thought to be a single substance. Later, its constituents were seperated and labelled. Further analysis showed that B's 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 weren't vitamins, hence only 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 12 remain, plus biotin and folacin. N----. ,----S // \\ +// | H3C--< >--CH2--N | \ / _ \ | N====' Cl `====+ ,' `.,'`. H3C OH Vitamin B1 - Thiamine Deficiency of which causes beriberi, it's pyrophosphate is also known as Coenzyme A, which plays a vital role in respiration. -oOo- HO `. `. | HO | `. ,' `. `. ,' `. | OH | ,' `. ,' `. HO | H3C | `. ,'`. ,N. ,N. `.,' `.`. ,' `. ,',' `. || ` | | ' | || , | , | | ,'`. ,',' `. ,',' `. ,N--H ,' `.,' `N' `.,' H3C || O Vitamin B2 - Riboflavin One of the main antioxidant vitamins, a constituent of FAD and FMN co-enzymes, also used as a yellowish colourant in food. -oOo- O || || ,'`, ,'`. ,' `.`. ,' `. || ` | OH || , | `. ,',' `N ' Vitamin B3 - Nictotinic Acid / Niacin The carboxylic acid of nicotine, American officials called it 'niacin' so as to prevent people thinking that they could fulfil their RDA of this vitamin by smoking... It is readily converted into: O || || ,'`, ,'`. ,' `.`. ,' `. || ` | NH2 || , | `. ,',' `N ' Nicotinamide, the amine of B3, which itself forms part of NADH (and NADPH in plants), a coenzyme used to extract energy from carbohydrates. Although the vitamin can be produced from nicotine, it is far cheaper to manufacture it from: ,'`, ,'`. ,'`. ,' `.`. ,',' `. ,' `.`. || ` | | ' || ` | || , | | . || , | `. ,',' `.`. ,' `. ,',' `N ' `.,' `N ' Pyridine or Quinoline -oOo- H3C CH3 OH `.| ,' >---' ,' HO--< H `. ,' >---N OH // `. ,' O `---. ,---< `. ,' \\ N---' O ,' H Vitamin B5 - Pantothenic Acid Pantothenic acid is another constituent of Coenzyme A, but nowadays perhaps more famous are the numerous derivates collectively labelled as "Pro-Vitamin B5 Complex" or panthenol/panthenate. These were originally developed to help WWII burns victims, but it was somehow discovered at the time that the complex helped to strengthen hair, and the firm Pantene was set up (now owned by Glaxo Smithkline, info from SB's website). -oOo- HOH2C OH `. ,'`, ,' `. ,',' `. ,' | ' || | . || `.`. ,' `. `N ' `. CH3 Vitamin B6 - Pyridoxine Used in the production of antibodies, manufacture of haemoglobin, and metabolism of proteins. -oOo- Vitamin B12 - Cyanocobalamine Helps make erythrocytes (red blood cells). Structure not asciified due to its complexity. For more info: http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/mom/vitamins/vitaminb12.html Verbose description: Vitamin B12 consists of: a monovalent cobalt metal at the center, surrounded by a porphyrin-like structure of tetrapyrrole rings, bound to the metal center is a cyano group and a 5',6'-dimethylbenzimidazolyl nucleotide which is linked to the tetrapyrrole rings via a phosphate sugar linkage. (see, I told you it was complicated!) -oOo- H2N `. ,N. ,N. `. ,',' `. ,' `.`. | ' || ` | | . || | `.`. ,' `. ,' `. `.,' `N ' `. | | | | OH NH ,'`. ,' ,' `.`. ,' || ` | O || , | `. ,' `. ,',' `.`.,' `.,' ` | | HN `. ,'||`. `.,' || `. | O OH | ,' ,' | | ,' `. ,',' `. O ' OH Vitamin Bc - Folacin / Folic Acid Helps synthesise DNA, RNA, erythrocytes, and antibodies, so is essential in foetuses. Found in abundance in green leaves, but easily destroyed by cooking. -oOo- [no pic as altavista can't find it's structure for me to copy] Biotin Used in the metabolism of carbohydrates, maintains healthy skin, hair and nails. -oOo-oOo-oOo- OH | ,O. | O. ,' `. ,' `. `.`.,' `.,' `CH2OH ` \ / \ / >-----< ,' `, HO' `OH Vitamin C - Ascorbic Acid Since everybody already knows almost everything about this vitamin, I'll give the trivia a miss on this one... -oOo- CH3 | H3C | `. ,'`. ,' `. `. ,' `.`.,' `. | `| CH3 CH3 | | ,'`. | ,'\ CH3 ,' `.|,' \ | | \ H2C | | / ,'`. // `. ,' `. / ,' `.// `.,' `./ | | || | | . || ,' `. ,' `.`. ,' ,' `.,' `.,' HO Vitamin D2 - Calciferol Essential for the development of teeth and bones, plus the absorption of calcium and phosphorous, vitamin D2 can be formed by the irradiation of 7-dehydrocholesterol (a derivative of cholesterol). -oOo- | HO | `. ,'`. ,'`. `.,' ., `. ,' `. | | | | | H3C H H3C H | | | | | `.,' `.,' ,' ,' `. `' ,' `. ,'|`. ,'`. ,'`. ,'`. ,'`. ,'`. ,'`. ,' `.,' `O ' | `' `' `' `' `' `' ` | CH3 | Vitamin E - d-alpha tocopherol Helps maintain healthy arteries (it's an anti-coagulant and vaso-dilator), and is an anti-oxidant as well. -oOo- O |"" ""| || | | | | || | | | | ,'`. ,'`. ,'`. ,'`| ,'`. ,'`.| ,' ,. `. ,' `. ,' `.,',' |`.,' `.,' |. | | | | || | | | | | | || | | `. `' ,' `. ,' |__ __|n `.,' `O ' || || O Vitamin K2 - Menaquinone (side chain length varies) (in K1 - phylloquinone, n=3) Involved in blood clotting, possibly part of prothrombin -oOo- Unless otherwise stated, all diagrams are (manually!) copied from gifs at http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Den/5701/ES.htm All asciifications copyright (c) Benjamin Norwood, January 2000 If anyone feels the urge to use any of the asciifications, please attribute with the alias "mbfh" -- Ben Norwood - the (ex-)Mad Biologist From Hell http://www.bigfoot.com/~bdn95/ bdn95 _@/" bigfoot.com ###### From: ott0matic1@aol.com (Incognito) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: The Complete Ascii Vitamin Set Lines: 7 NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder05.news.aol.com X-Admin: news@aol.com Date: 22 Jan 2000 16:29:08 GMT References: Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <20000122112908.03669.00000820@ng-cr1.aol.com> Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.usit.net!remarQ-easT!remarQ.com!supernews.com!portc05.blue.aol.com!audrey04.news.aol.com!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:7995 Ben Norwood wrote: > I thought I'd have a go at the >entire vitamin set, Now that's some dedication. Good job! I clipped it for later reference. ][ncogni']['o ###### Message-ID: <3889DE63.6068D44F@gtcom.net> From: Krogg Reply-To: krogg.no.to.spam@gtcom.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en-GB,en,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: The Complete Ascii Vitamin Set References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 29 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 11:44:19 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.16.179.26 X-Trace: eagle.america.net 948559510 12.16.179.26 (Sat, 22 Jan 2000 11:45:10 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 11:45:10 EST Organization: 24hoursupport.com Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.atl.bellsouth.net.MISMATCH!newsfeed.atl!falcon.america.net!eagle.america.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:7974 Ben Norwood wrote: > > Righteo then, since the subject of chemical structures has resurfaced, > and it's cold/flu season, I thought I'd have a go at the entire vitamin > set, and to spice it up, a bit of biochemical trivia as well :) > > H3C CH3 CH3 CH3 > `.,' | | CH2OH > ,'`. ,'\\,'\\,'\\,'\\,' > | || > `..' `. > CH3 > [snip] very interesting...thanks for the post. -- |"""""<`.THE PRINCE ,'>"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""| | `.`/""""""\,',' my sig is too big, | |SEE HIS ( / \ \' SEE HIS but its really cool. | | FACE \/<> <>\/ SMILE | | / W \ Visit my ascii art site: | | ,'\_|||||_/`. http://www.gtcom.net/~krogg/ascii/ | | ,',' ||| `.`. krogg.no.to.spam@gtcom.net | |____<,' TIME TO DIE `.>____Remove no.to.spam to reply____| ###### From: Ben Norwood Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: The Complete Ascii Vitamin Set Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 18:25:42 +0000 Organization: Virtually non-existant - OK? Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <20000122112908.03669.00000820@ng-cr1.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: xena.dcs.aber.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: dyfi.aber.ac.uk 948565624 27111 193.60.15.5 (22 Jan 2000 18:27:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@aber.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Jan 2000 18:27:04 GMT X-Sender: bdn95@xena In-Reply-To: <20000122112908.03669.00000820@ng-cr1.aol.com> X-No-Archive: Yes Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!skynet.be!news-lond.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!server4.netnews.ja.net!aber!xena!bdn95 Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:7992 On Today, Incognito wrote: : Ben Norwood wrote: : > I thought I'd have a go at the : >entire vitamin set, : : Now that's some dedication. Good job! I clipped it for later reference. It's called "getting carried away with it"....especially if you look at the time the post was sent (something like 3am!)... I originally planned to do just A and the B complex yesterday, finishing off today, but then I got into the "I'll just do one more..." routine... ObAscii: a row of vitamin C tablet tubes sitting on a pharmacy/health food shop shelf... ,-.,-.,-.,-.,-.,-.,-.,-.,-.,-.,-.,-.,-.,-.,-.,-.,-.,-.,-.,-. >-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-< ,-|C||C||C||C||C||C||C||C||C||C||C||C||C||C||C||C||C||C||C||C|---, ,' |_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_| ,'| '----------------------------------------------------------------<. | `| `| mbfh -- Ben Norwood bdn95@aber.ac.uk http://www.aber.ac.uk/~bdn95/ ###### From: "Ojosh!ro" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: The Complete Ascii Vitamin Set Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:40:37 +0000 Organization: lunatech Lines: 63 Sender: luna5@perla.rotterdam.luna.net Message-ID: <948728816.627889@perla.rotterdam.luna.net> References: <3889DE63.6068D44F@gtcom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: perla.rotterdam.luna.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news1.xs4all.nl 948728817 21445 194.151.24.32 (24 Jan 2000 15:46:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Jan 2000 15:46:57 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.9 i686) X-Accept-Language: ko, zh-CN, ja, en Cache-Post-Path: perla.rotterdam.luna.net!unknown@rock.lunatech.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.2.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!news.datacomm.ch!newsmaster-01.vbs.at!newsrouter.chello.at!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!xs4all!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:8096 Krogg wrote: > > Ben Norwood wrote: > > > > Righteo then, since the subject of chemical structures has resurfaced, > > and it's cold/flu season, I thought I'd have a go at the entire vitamin > > set, and to spice it up, a bit of biochemical trivia as well :) > > > > H3C CH3 CH3 CH3 > > `.,' | | CH2OH > > ,'`. ,'\\,'\\,'\\,'\\,' > > | || > > `..' `. > > CH3 > > > [snip] > > very interesting...thanks for the post. Dumteedum dum dum... ,--------------------------------------. ( Whow! Can I borrow some of those 'C's? ) . (`-| `-y------------------------------------' ) ) "o ' (_(__) ,------------------------. ( ..and some of them 'H's? ) `----------------------y-' ( ` (`-') , \"/\ ( (__)_) ,--------------------------------------------. ( And I must say that 'OH' looks mighty tasty! ) `-------------------------------y------------' |-') o" ( . (__)___) ,--. ,-------------------------. A (). ( This'd make a fine wodka! ) / \ (). `----y--------------------' / \ (). ' (_____) ` o._/)_ /`---'\ ][ \".-' , / | \ /__\ (__)__S A |____C H OH 2 5 ,-.(_) O `-',--. AlcoCat O ( ) WaS HeRe... `--' o!O -- A programmer: A device for converting coffee into programs ojoshiro@lunatech.com ###### From: Ben Norwood Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: The Complete Ascii Vitamin Set Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 00:58:39 +0000 Organization: Virtually non-existant - OK? Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <3889DE63.6068D44F@gtcom.net> <948728816.627889@perla.rotterdam.luna.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: xena.dcs.aber.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: dyfi.aber.ac.uk 948762008 7453 193.60.15.5 (25 Jan 2000 01:00:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@aber.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Jan 2000 01:00:08 GMT X-Sender: bdn95@xena In-Reply-To: <948728816.627889@perla.rotterdam.luna.net> X-No-Archive: Yes Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!skynet.be!news-lond.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!gxn.net!server6.netnews.ja.net!server4.netnews.ja.net!aber!xena!bdn95 Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:8078 On Yesterday, Ojosh!ro wrote: : ,--. ,-------------------------. : A (). ( This'd make a fine wodka! ) : / \ (). `----y--------------------' : / \ (). ' : (_____) ` o._/)_ : /`---'\ ][ \".-' , : / | \ /__\ (__)__S : A : |____C H OH : 2 5 Hehe... Don't tempt me...or you might find such delights as glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway asciified...or both (since the two processes overlap)... Meanwhile the vitamins have been htmlised [1] and are now sitting on my website (see below for uri)... --Ben [1] Nice and simple to do....I have a preconstructed 'header' and 'footer', just add the header to the top of the raw ascii and the footer to the bottom, and hey presto! a new html page... -- Ben Norwood bdn95@aber.ac.uk http://www.aber.ac.uk/~bdn95/ ###### From: "Ojosh!ro" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: The Complete Ascii Vitamin Set Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:44:44 +0000 Organization: lunatech Lines: 46 Sender: luna5@perla.rotterdam.luna.net Message-ID: <948793863.371124@perla.rotterdam.luna.net> References: <3889DE63.6068D44F@gtcom.net> <948728816.627889@perla.rotterdam.luna.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: perla.rotterdam.luna.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news1.xs4all.nl 948793863 14561 194.151.24.32 (25 Jan 2000 09:51:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Jan 2000 09:51:03 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.9 i686) X-Accept-Language: ko, zh-CN, ja, en Cache-Post-Path: perla.rotterdam.luna.net!unknown@rock.lunatech.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.2.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!skynet.be!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!xs4all!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:8093 Ben Norwood wrote: > > On Yesterday, Ojosh!ro wrote: > > : ,--. ,-------------------------. > : A (). ( This'd make a fine wodka! ) > : / \ (). `----y--------------------' > : / \ (). ' > : (_____) ` o._/)_ > : /`---'\ ][ \".-' , > : / | \ /__\ (__)__S > : A > : |____C H OH > : 2 5 > > Hehe... > > Don't tempt me...or you might find such delights as glycolysis and the > pentose phosphate pathway asciified...or both (since the two > processes overlap)... Euhh, right... I used to be fairly good at chemistry, but I kind of had to drop it cos I'm colourblind. ( Only later found out they have electronic devices now to determine the pH-value and it isn't necessary anymore to use colour-indicators ) So... ehhh. I never made it past the equivalent of highschool in chemistry. But I suppose I could add something like this: H H \ / C===C / \ H H I leave the radical stuff to someone else =) o!O -- A programmer: A device for converting coffee into programs ojoshiro@lunatech.com