| Abstract: | Summary 1. Paper chromatography has shown that the fruit ofC. dubium contains not less than eight substances of coumarinic nature; six of these (A, B, C, D, E, and H) have been isolated in the crystalline state.2. Substances B, D, and E are identical with isoimperatorin, imperatorin, and oxypeucedanin, respectively. Some properties of substance H have been determined. Prangenin F] has been detected in the fruit ofC. dubium by paper chromatography.3. The structure of two new compounds has been established: substance A (cnidicin) (I) is 5, 8-di-( , -dimethylallyloxy) psoralen, and substance C (cnidilin) (II) is 5-(, -dimethylallyloxy)-8-methoxypsoralen.Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 375–380, 1966 |
