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Structural identification of an anthrasteroid hydrocarbon from the sheep tick Ixodes ricinus
David Saman1, Josef Cvacka, Ales Svatos
1Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Femingovo nam. 2, CZ-166 10, Praha 6, Czech Republic.
Journal of Natural Products
|August 29, 2006
Abstract:
A new anthrasteroid hydrocarbon was isolated from cuticular integument of engorged female Ixodes ricinus, and its structure was determined by interpretation of spectroscopic and nuclear magnetic resonance data as 14alpha(H)-1(10-->6)-abeo-cholesta-3,5,7,9(10)-tetraene (1).

