Abstract: | A new methylsteroid of the cycloartane series has been isolated from the epigeal part ofAstragalus orbiculatus Ledeb. (Leguminosae); it has the structure of a (23R,24S)-16 ,23; 16 ,24-diepoxycycloartane-3 ,6 ,25-tetraol.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Uzbek SSR. Academy of Sciences, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, Vol. 6, pp. 809–812, November–December, 1989. |