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Planta Med 1997; 63(4): 343-346
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-957697
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Phytochemical Reinvestigation of Xysmalobium undulatum Roots (Uzara)1

Majid Ghorbani2 , Macki Kaloga2 , Hans-Hasso Frey3 , Gisela Mayer4 , Eckhart Eich2
  • 2Institut für Pharmazie II, Pharmazeutische Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
  • 3Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie des Fachbereichs Veterinärmedizin, Freie Universität Berlin, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
  • 4Schering AG, Abt. IPCH Strukturanalyse, D-13353 Berlin, Germany
1 Presented in part at the International Symposium “Biology and Chemistry of Active Natural Substances”, July 17-22, 1990, Bonn, Germany, Planta Med. 56 (1990), 550
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Abstract

Four major cardenolide glycosides of Xysmalobium undulatum (L.) R. Br. roots (Uzara) have been isolated for the first time in pure form. The structures were elucidated by spectral analyses and determined as sophorosides and their 17-epimers, respectively. Thus, the structural elucidation of uzarin and xysmalorin, the two main glycosides, has been completed. The corresponding H-17β isomers, allouzarin and alloxysmalorin, were characterized as genuine compounds.

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Xysmalobium undulatum - Asclepiadaceae - cardenolide glycosides - sophorosides - Uzara - uzarin - xysmalorin - allouzarin - alloxysmalorin