Planta Med 2000; 66(2): 191-193
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1243132
Letter

© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

A New Trinortriterpenoid from Cleome chrysantha

Guo-Wei Qin3*, Arafa I. Hamed1 , Nasr A. El-Emary2 , Ye-Gao Chen3 , Li-Quan Wang3 , Kung-Kai Cheung4 , Kin-Fai Cheng4
  • 1Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Aswan, Egypt
  • 2Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt
  • 3Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
  • 4Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Further Information

Publication History

Received: March 26, 1999

Accepted: July 25, 1999

Publication Date:
24 November 2009 (online)

Abstract

A new trinortriterpenoid, 1-epibrachyacarpone, was isolated from aerial parts of Cleome chrysantha. Its structure was elucidated as 1 by NMR investigations and X-ray crystallographic studies.

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Prof. Guo-Wei Qin

Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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People's Republic of China

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