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Tetranortriterpenoids from Spathelia sorbifolia (Rutaceae)
Denise S Simpson1, Stewart McLean, William F Reynolds
1Department of Chemistry, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica.
Natural Product Communications
|July 10, 2010
Abstract:
Two new tetranortriterpenoids were obtained by chromatography of the acetone extract of the wood of Spathelia sorbifolia L.; these compounds were characterized as their p-bromobenzoyl derivatives (2, 3). This extract also yielded a known tetranortriterpenoid and the chromones allopteroxylin, spatheliabischromene and anhydrosorbifolin.
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