Bioactive coumarins from the leaves of Murraya omphalocarpa
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Real-time Monitoring of Reactions Performed Using Continuous-flow Processing: The Preparation of 3-Acetylcoumarin as an Example
Published on: November 18, 2015
Keh-Shaw Chen1, Chin-Chuang Wu, Fang-Rong Chang
1Ta-Jen Pharmaceutical Junior College, Ping Tung Hsien, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Abstract:
Using antiplatelet aggregation as a guide to fractionation, eight coumarins, omphalocarpinol (1), 5,7-dimethoxy-8-(3'-methyl-2'-oxobutyl)coumarin (2), murralongin, murrayanone, omphamurin (5), murragleinin, mexoticin, and murrangatin, were isolated from the leaves of Murraya omphalocarpa. Compound 1 is new, and 5 is a new enantiomer of omphamurin. The structures of these compounds were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic techniques, and the structure of compound 1 was confirmed by X-ray crystallographic analysis. Among them, compounds 1, 2 and 5 exhibited significant antiplatelet aggregation activity.
