Records of Natural Products

Year: 2013  Volume: 7  Issue: 2

 

  SHORT REPORT

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A New Diterpenoid from the Seeds of Caesalpinia sappan Linn

Yong-Jiang Xu, Jianbing Zhang, Chun-Ping Tang and Yang Ye

Key Laboratory of Insect Development and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institute for Biological Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 20 002 3, People’s Republic of China

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. 11759, Singapore

State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, & Natural Products Chemistry Department, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, People’s Republic of China

Abstract: A new cassane-type d iterpene, named Phangininoxy A (1) and one known Phanginin A (2) were isolated from the exact of seeds of Caesalpinia sappan Linn. Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic methods, mainly 1D and 2D NMR.

Keywords: Caesalpinia sappan ; cassane; diterpene; NMR.