Triterpene glycosides of alfalfa. VI. Medicoside L

A new triterpene pentaglycoside — medicoside L — has been isolated from the roots ofMedicago sativa L. (Leguminosae). It has the structure of medicagenic acid 28-O--D-glucopyranoside 3-O-{O--D-glucopyranosyl-(1 2)]O--L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1 3)]-O--D-glucopyranosyl-(1 2)}--D-glucopyranoside.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Uzbek SSR Academy of Sciences, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 221–228, March–April, 1990.