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A bioactive spirolactone iridoid and triterpenoids from Himatanthus sucuuba
C A Wood1, K Lee, A J Vaisberg
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, 02747, USA.
Chemical & Pharmaceutical Bulletin
|November 29, 2001
Abstract:
Himatanthus sucuuba is an Amazonian tree with abundant, yet conflicting ethnobotanical information. Investigation of the polar and non-polar constituents led to the isolation of plumericin, a bioactive spirolactone iridoid, and four known pentacylic triterpenes: lupeol acetate, lupeol cinnamate, lupeol beta-phenyl propionate, and alpha-amyrin cinnamate.