Planta Med 2004; 70(10): 1001-1003
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-832628
Letter
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Cyclopentanoid Cyanohydrin Glucosides and Amides of Lindackeria dentata

Jerzy W. Jaroszewski1 , Patrick Ekpe2 , Matthias Witt3
  • 1Department of Medicinal Chemistry, The Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2Botany Department, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
  • 3Bruker Daltonik GmbH, Bremen, Germany
Part 27 in the series ”Natural Cyclopentanoid Cyanohydrin Glycosides”
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Publication History

Received: April 28, 2004

Accepted: July 15, 2004

Publication Date:
18 October 2004 (online)

Abstract

A mixture of cyanogenic glucosides epivolkenin and taraktophyllin, 1,4-dihydroxy-2-cyclopentenecarboxamide, and uridine were isolated from leaves of Lindackeria dentata (Flacourtiaceae). Another cyclopentanoid amide, (1R,4S,5R)-1,4,5-trihydroxy-2-cyclopentenecarboxamide, was synthesized in two steps from gynocardin, and shown to have the same relative configuration as a partially identified amide previously isolated from L. dentata bark.

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Prof. Jerzy W. Jaroszewski

Department of Medicinal Chemistry

The Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Universitetsparken 2

2100 Copenhagen

Denmark

Fax: +45 3530 6040.

Email: jj@dfuni.dk

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