Ornithogalin — A cardenolide glycoside from Ornithogalum magnum

Summary From the pods ofOrnithogalum magnum Krasch. et Schischk. we have isolated a new cardenolide glycoside which has been called ornithogalin, the structure of which may be given as 3-O--D-glucopyranosyl-14-hydroxycard-4,20 (22)-dienolide.Khar'kov Chemical and Pharmaceutical Scientific-Research Institute. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 38–40, January, 1971.