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Le Wang1, Shuhui Wang1, Qiqi Wang1
1State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, School of Pharmaceutica Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
Abstract:
Arnebidin, a heptacyclic naphthoquinone dimer with a tricyclo[3.3.0.01,3]octane core, which was first isolated from Arnebia hispidissima and later found from A. euchroma. Its structure was identified by the analysis of NMR and EI-MS data. In the present work, a heptacyclic naphthoquinone dimer ((±)-1) was obtained from the petroleum ether portion of the ethanol extract of Arnebia euchroma. By comparing the NMR data of 1 with the literatures, compound 1 should be identified as arnebidin. However, the single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis followed by reinterpretation of the NMR data revealed that the structure of 1 was a heptacyclic naphthoquinone dimer with a tricyclo[3.2.1.02,7]octane core. Thus, we proposed that arnebidin should be revised to 1.
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