Drosophilin A, or 2,3,5,6-tetrachloro-4-methoxyphenol, is a natural antibiotic first isolated by F. Kavanagh and co-workers from the mushroom聽Agaricus subatratusin 1952. This year, W. Vetter and coauthors, while analyzing commercial meat from wild boars (Sus scrofa) for persistent organic pollutants,聽. Mushrooms are typically parts of boars鈥� diets, and the presumed lack of toxicity of drosophilin A may aid in the synthesis of useful nontoxic polyhalogenated compounds.
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