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A new chlorinated red naphthoquinone from roots of Sesamum indicum
A F Hasan1, S Begum, T Furumoto
1Department of Biochemistry and Food Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Japan.
Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry
|June 1, 2000
Abstract:
A new chlorinated red naphthoquinone pigment having antifungal activity, named chlorosesamone, was isolated from the roots of Sesamum indicum. Its structure was characterized as 2-chloro-5,8-dihydroxy-3-(3methyl-2-butenyl)- 1,4-na phthoquinone on the basis of spectral evidence.