PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOURAL DYNAMICS IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS: PULLING CHAIN FORMATION IN THE NEST-WEAVING ANT OECOPHYLLA SMARAGDINA.

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In the title compound, C25H17NO4, the indolizine fused naphthaquinone unit is approximately planar [r.m.s deviation = 0.0678 Å] and makes a dihedral angle of 57.82 (5)° with the benzene ring Spot Gel of the methoxybenzene group.The naphthoquinone O atoms deviate, in the same sense, from the mean plane of the fu

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