Abstract: | A new terpene ketone which has been called dehydroelsholtsia ketone has been isolated from the essential oil ofElsholtzia ciliata (Thumb.) Hyl. The structure of dehydroelsholtzia ketone as 3-methyl-2-(3-methylbut-2-enoyl)furan has been proposed on the basis of a study of its IR, PMR, mass and13C spectra and has been confirmed by its conversion into elsholtzia ketone.Institute of Chemical Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata. Siberian State Medical Institute, Tomsk. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 823–824, November–December, 1993. |