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Structural confirmation of decussatin, a Swertia decussata xanthone
Gajanan J Chintalwar1, Subrata Chattopadhyay
1Bio-Organic Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400085, India.
Natural Product Research
|November 16, 2005
Abstract:
Reinvestigation of the plant, Swertia decussata resulted in the isolation of four antioxidant xanthones, which were characterized as 1-hydroxy-3,7,8-trimethoxy, 1,8-dihydroxy-3,7-dimethoxy, 1,7-dihydroxy-3,8-dimethoxy and 1,7,8-trihydroxy-3-methoxyxanthones. The structural ambiguity of the first compound was settled by ASIS-NMR and 2D NOESY spectroscopy.
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