Abstract: | The structures of the new cycloartane triterpenoid cycloalpigenin C and its glycoside cycloalpioside C, isolated from the epigeal pan of Astragalus alopecurus Pall. (Leguminosae), have been determined. Cycloalpigenin C is 20R, 24S-epoxycycloartane-3 ,12 ,16 , 25-tetraol, and cycloalpioside C is the 3-O- D-xylopyranoside of cycloalpigenin C.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, fax (3712) 89 14 75. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 88–95, January–February, 1995. Original article submitted October 25, 1994. |