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Two new dolabranes from the Chinese mangrove Ceriops tagal
Yi Chen1, Wen-Jing Wang1, Jun Wu1
1a Marine Drugs Research Center , College of Pharmacy, Jinan University , Guangzhou 510632 , China.
Journal of Asian Natural Products Research
|January 5, 2016
Abstract:
Two new dolabranes, named tagalsins V-W (1-2), were isolated from the aerial parts of Ceriops tagal, together with 10 known terpenes (3-12). The structures of these compounds were determined on the basis of extensive spectroscopic data or comparison with data in the literature (known compounds).
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