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Renchanglactone A, a new triterpenoid lactone from Kadsura renchangiana
1Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
Natural Product Research
|February 13, 2008
Abstract:
From the stems of Kadsura rechangiana, a new triterpenoid lactone named renchanglactone A (1), was isolated together with four known triterpenoids, kadsulactone A, mawuweizic acid, ganwuweizic acid and kadsuric acid. Their structures were determined by spectroscopic methods including 2D-NMR techniques.
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