werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) (07/31/85)
This is a request to help save me a lot of digging. Generally I refer to Vitamins by their chemical name, as the pattern in most texts, so I was wondering if someone could help me complete the following chart. B1 = Thiamine B2 = Riboflavin B6 = Pyridoxine and related compounds B12 = Cyanocobalamin That leaves 3,4,5,7,8,9,10, and 11 free. It also leaves Niacin, Pantothenate, and (I believe) Folate as B Vitamins without assignment. -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner "The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"
tjs@cbdkc1.UUCP ( Tom Stanions) (08/01/85)
In article <1820@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes: >This is a request to help save me a lot of digging. Generally I refer to >Vitamins by their chemical name, as the pattern in most texts, so I was >wondering if someone could help me complete the following chart. > >B1 = Thiamine >B2 = Riboflavin >B6 = Pyridoxine and related compounds >B12 = Cyanocobalamin > >That leaves 3,4,5,7,8,9,10, and 11 free. > >It also leaves Niacin, Pantothenate, and (I believe) Folate as B Vitamins >without assignment. > >-- > Craig Werner > !philabs!aecom!werner > "The world is just a straight man for you sometimes" From the book "The Vitamin & Health Encyclopedia" by Jack Richardson: B3 = Niacin B5 = Pantothenic acid B13 = Orotic acid B15 = Pangamic acid B17 = Laetrile Vitamin B Factors mentioned - Inositol, Choine & Folic acid This list is straight from the book. If someone feels a need to re-open the Laetrile debate please either reference the above mentioned book or make it your own seperate subject. I guess that B13 & B15 are open subjects as Craig had not mentioned them. {allegra|ihnp4}!cbdkc1!tjs
larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) (08/03/85)
> This is a request to help save me a lot of digging. Generally I refer to > Vitamins by their chemical name, as the pattern in most texts, so I was > wondering if someone could help me complete the following chart. > > B1 = Thiamine > B2 = Riboflavin > B6 = Pyridoxine and related compounds > B12 = Cyanocobalamin > > That leaves 3,4,5,7,8,9,10, and 11 free. > > It also leaves Niacin, Pantothenate, and (I believe) Folate as B Vitamins > without assignment. I don't know why you want this, since I don't believe there is much clinical use of other than B1, B2, B6, and B12, but here goes: B1 Thiamine Hydrochloride (one of several thiamine salts) B2 Riboflavine (a/k/a Vitamin G) B3 Nicotinamide (a/k/a Vitamin PP) B4 Adenine B5 Pantothenic Acid (has also been referred to as Nicotinamide in lit.) B6 Pyridoxine Hydrochloride B7 - B9 1,2,3-BTHOM (Beats The Hell Outta Me) B10 Unidentified composition according to "The Merck Index, 9th Ed." B11 Unidentified composition according to "The Merck Index, 9th Ed." B12 Cyanocobalamin B12a Hydroxocobalamin B12b Aquocobalamin B12c Nitrosocobalamin B12p Etiocobalamin B12r A somewhat unstable reduction product of Cyanocobalamin B12s Hydridocobalamin B13 Orotic Acid B15 Pangamic Acid Bc Folic Acid (a/k/a Vitamin M) Bt l-Carnitine Bx p-Aminobenzoic Acid Niacin (Nicotinic Acid) is not a B vitamin. Don't ask if there is any rhyme or reason to the naming of vitamins... Larry Lippman Recognition Research Corp. Clarence, New York UUCP {decvax,dual,rocksanne,rocksvax,watmath}!sunybcs!kitty!larry {rice,shell}!baylor!kitty!larry syr!buf!kitty!larry VOICE 716/741-9185 TELEX {via WUI} 69-71461 answerback: ELGECOMCLR "Have you hugged your cat today?"
larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) (08/05/85)
> >This is a request to help save me a lot of digging. Generally I refer to > >Vitamins by their chemical name, as the pattern in most texts, so I was > >wondering if someone could help me complete the following chart. > > > >B1 = Thiamine > >B2 = Riboflavin > >B6 = Pyridoxine and related compounds > >B12 = Cyanocobalamin > > > >That leaves 3,4,5,7,8,9,10, and 11 free. > > > >It also leaves Niacin, Pantothenate, and (I believe) Folate as B Vitamins > >without assignment. > > From the book "The Vitamin & Health Encyclopedia" by Jack Richardson: > > B3 = Niacin > ... > B17 = Laetrile I hate to nitpick, but where I come from nicotinamide is Vitamin B3, and niacin is simply a colloquial name for nicotinic acid. Also, Laetrile has been unfortunately referred to as ``Vitamin B-17'' in some literature - which is most misleading. Note, however, that it is literally ``B-17'' and not ``B'' subscript ``17'' which is the form that all of the genuine B vitamins are written in. The current 9th edition of "The Merck Index" agrees with me. I could flame about how these 'consumer' oriented health books distort the chemical and biological facts - but I won't today... Larry Lippman Recognition Research Corp. Clarence, New York UUCP {decvax,dual,rocksanne,rocksvax,watmath}!sunybcs!kitty!larry {rice,shell}!baylor!kitty!larry syr!buf!kitty!larry VOICE 716/741-9185 TELEX {via WUI} 69-71461 answerback: ELGECOMCLR "Have you hugged your cat today?"
friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) (08/07/85)
In article <229@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: > > Don't ask if there is any rhyme or reason to the naming of vitamins... > Well, there *is* a little, I believe all the "B" vitamins are water soluble, and non-B vitamins are not or some such thing. Anyone remember exactly what the difference is? -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) {trwrb|allegra|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|aero!uscvax!akgua}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen or {ttdica|quad1|bellcore|scgvaxd}!psivax!friesen
larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) (08/11/85)
> > Don't ask if there is any rhyme or reason to the naming of vitamins... > > > Well, there *is* a little, I believe all the "B" vitamins are > water soluble, and non-B vitamins are not or some such thing. Anyone > remember exactly what the difference is? Well, if my memory serves me correctly, vitamins got their name from from a not-quite-identified amine which was used to treat beriberi, and were originally called `vitamines'. I believe this name persisted during further discovery work which yielded more `vitamines'; it was later learned that some of these substances were not amines after all, and hence the name was changed to the present `vitamin'. Most if not all B vitamins and vitamin C are water soluble. Vitamins A, D, E, and K are fat-soluble. I never learned any further rhyme or reason to the naming of vitamins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | Larry Lippman @ Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, New York | | UUCP {decvax,dual,rocksanne,rocksvax,watmath}!sunybcs!kitty!larry | | {rice,shell}!baylor!/ | | VOICE 716/741-9185 syr!buf!/ | | TELEX {via WUI} 69-71461 ansbak: ELGECOMCLR | | | | "Have you hugged your cat today?" | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
patc@tekcrl.UUCP (Pat Caudill) (08/15/85)
-- The last two issues of "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" have had articles by "the Good Doctor" Asimov about the history of vitamins. He tells about how they were discovered, where they got their names, and what happened to B7,8,9 (they were mistakes)... Hope this pointer helps. Pat Caudill