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Spirodepressolide: an unusual bis-norsesquiterpene lactone from Achillea depressa Janka
Milka N Todorova1, Elena T Tsankova, Elena I Mustakerova
1Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria. todorova@orgchm.bas.bg
Natural Product Research
|July 14, 2004
Abstract:
A new bis-norsesquiterpene lactone, spirodepressolide (1), has been isolated from the aerial parts of Achillea depressa Janka and its structure determined by spectroscopic methods to have a new 4-methyl-7-methylethyl-spirobicyclo[4,4]nonane skeleton.
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