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1Department of Chemistry, Doctor Hari singh Gour University, Saugar, (M.P.) 470003, India.
Planta Medica
|February 1, 1987
Abstract:
Two new anthraquinones have been isolated from the seeds of PEGANUM HARMALA Linn and the structures established as 3,6-dihydroxy-8-methoxy-2-methylanthraquinone (peganone; 1) and 8-hydroxy-7-methoxy-2-methylanthraquinone (peganone; 2) by spectral correlations and chemical evidences.
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