| Abstract: | The iridoid glycosides catalpol, veronicoside, catalposide, mussaenoside, and 8-epiloganin have been investigated by secondary-ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). A tendency of these compounds to give cationized1 form of the molecular ions in the SIMS regime has been shown. In the SIMS spectra of veronicoside and catalposide the maximum peaks were those of acyl cations, and in the cases of mussaenoside and 8-epilonganin they were the peaks of ions formed by the elimination of a glucose molecule.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. 62–65, January–February, 1996. Original article submitted Spetemebr 17, 1995. |
