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Two new pregnanes from Aglaia perviridis Hiern
Shu-Min Yang1, Wen-Wei Fu, Dong-Xiao Wang
1Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS, Shanghai, China.
Journal of Asian Natural Products Research
|May 9, 2008
Abstract:
Two new pregnanes, 2alpha,3alpha,20-trihydroxy-16beta-acetoxy-20(R)-pregnane (1) and 2alpha,3alpha,15beta-trihydroxy-16beta-acetoxy-pregnane-20(R)-methacrylate (2), along with five known compounds, were isolated from the ethanolic extract of the twigs of Aglaia perviridis Hiern using chromatographic methods. The structures of 1 and 2 were elucidated on the basis of spectral data.
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