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A Customizable Approach for the Enzymatic Production and Purification of Diterpenoid Natural Products
Published on: October 4, 2019
Eight new clerodane diterpenoids from the bark of Ptychopetalum olacoides
Wanxia Tang1, Kenichi Harada, Miwa Kubo
1Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Tokushima 770-8514, Japan.
Abstract:
Eight new clerodane type diterpenoids, named 7-oxo-kolavelool (1), 7alpha-hydroxykolavelool (2), 6alpha,7alpha-dihydroxykolavenol (3), 12-oxo-hardwickiic acid (4), ptycholide I (5), ptycholide II (6), ptycholide III (7), and ptycholide IV (8) were isolated from the MeOH extract of the bark of a Brazilian medicinal plant, Ptychopetalum olacoides. The structures of 1-8 were elucidated by analyzing spectroscopic data and by comparing their NMR data with those of the previously reported compounds kolavelool (la), kolavenol (3a), hardwickiic acid (4a), and ptychonolide (5a). Compounds 5 and 6 existed as a 1:1 mixture of inseparable epimers at C-15.
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