Steroids of the spirostan and furostan series from plants of the genus Allium. XXI. Structure of alliospiroside a and alliofuroside a from Allium cepa

Two new steroid glycosides have been isolated from the generative organs (pericarps and peduncles) ofAllium cepa L.: alliospiroside A and alliofuroside A. According to chemical transformations and spectral characteristics, alliospiroside A has the structure of (25S)-spirost-5-ene-1,3-diol 1-O-O--L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1 2)--L-arabinopyranoside]. The structure of (25S)-furost-5-ene-1,3,22,26-tetraol 20-O--D-glucopyranoside 1-O-O--L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1 2)--L-arabinopyranoside] has been established for alliofuroside A.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 188–196, March–April, 1986.