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Fei Wang1, Xue-Lian Cheng, Ya-Ju Li
1State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Six new ent-pimarane diterpenoids, namely, ent-14beta,16-epoxy-8-pimarene-3beta,15alpha-diol (1), 7beta-hydroxydarutigenol (2), 9beta-hydroxydarutigenol (3), 16-O-acetyldarutigenol (4), 15,16-di-O-acetyldarutoside (5), and 16-O-acetyldarutoside (6), were isolated from the ethanol extract of Siegesbeckia orientalis. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic studies, and the absolute configuration of 1 was established by the modified Mosher's method. Furthermore, the structure of ent-12beta,16-epoxy-8-pimarene-2alpha,15beta,19-triol, recently isolated from the same plant, should be revised as ent-14beta,16-epoxy-8-pimarene-2alpha,15alpha,19-triol (10).
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