Abstract: | Two genins — squarrogenin 1 and squarrogenin 2 — have been isolated from nodding meadow rue by the hydrolysis of squarrosides A1 and A2. The compounds are epimeric at C-21 and have the following structures: 1 — (21R, 22S, 23R)-21-methoxy-21,23-epoxycycloart-24-ene-3 ,22 -30-triol, C31H50O5, mp 169–171°C (hexane-acetone), ]
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–11.06° (c 4.52; pyridine); and 2 — (21S, 22S, 23R)-21-methoxy-21,23-epoxycycloart-24-ene-3 ,22 ,30-triol, C31H50O5, mp 190–193°C (hexane-acetone), ]
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+106.6° (c 0.3; pyridine). The results of1H and13C NMR spectroscopy and of mass spectrometry for the new compounds are given.Irkutsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Siberian Division of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 510–516, July–August, 1989. |