| Abstract: | A new glycoside of the cycloartane series — askendoside A — has been isolated from the roots ofAstragalus taschkendicus Bge. (family Leguminosae), and on the basis of chemical transformation and spectral characteristics its structure has been established as 3 -O- -L-arabinopyranosyl-(1 2) -(3 -O-acetyl--D-xylopyranosyl)-oxy]-24R-cycloartane-6, 16, 24, 25-tetraol.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 587–592, September–October, 1983. |
