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Cellular Lipid Extraction for Targeted Stable Isotope Dilution Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Analysis
Published on: November 17, 2011
1α,6β,7β,11α,15β-Penta-hydr-oxy-7α,20-ep-oxy-ent-kaur-16-ene
Abstract:
The title compound, C(20)H(30)O(6), a natural ent-kaurane diterpenoid, named nervosanin B, was obtained from the medicinal plant Isodon serra. It is composed of four rings with the expected trans and cis junctions. One of the six-membered rings is in a chair conformation, the other two are in boat conformations and the five-membered ring adopts an evenlope conformation. The mol-ecules stack along the a axis and are linked together by inter-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds. Two intramolecular O-H⋯O interactions also occur.
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