Planta Medica, Table of Contents Planta Med 1990; 56(1): 98-100DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-960896 Paper © Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York Structure of Tripterygic Acid A: A New Triterpene of Tripterygium wilfordii Dong-Ming Zhang, De-Quan Yu Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100050, People's Republic of China Recommend Article Abstract PDF Download Buy Article Abstract From roots of Tripterygium wilfordii used in Chinese folk medicine, a new ursane-triterpene named tripterygic acid A was isolated along with a known triterpene and their structures were elucidated by means of spectral analysis and chemical transformation. Key words Tripterygium wilfordii - Celastraceae - Ursane-triterpene - tripterygic acid - orthosphenic acid PDF (222 kb)
