Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Published by the American Chemical Society at 20th and Northampton Sts., Easton, Pennsylvania

EDITOR ALFRED BURGER

Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

LEO G. ABOOD University of Rochester

JULIUS AXELROD National Institutes of Health

J. J. BURNS Burroughs Wellcome and Company

Ε. Ε. CAMPAIGNE Indiana University

ASSISTANT EDITOR EVERETTE L. MAY

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

CHESTER J. CAVALLITO Neisler Research Laboratories

Κ. Κ. CHEN Indiana University School of Medicine

JACKSON P. ENGLISH American Cyanamid Company

EDWARD J. MODEST Harvard Medical School

EDWARD E. SMISSMAN University of Kansas

E. C. TAYLOR Princeton University

MANFRED E. WOLFF University of California (San Francisco)

CHARLES L. ZIRKLE Smith Kline and French

Laboratories

E X - O F F I C I O : BARRY M . BLOOM, Chas. Pfizer Medical Research Laboratories (Secretary, Division of Medicinal Chemistry, American Chemical Society)

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