Abstract: | The structure of a new cycloartane glycoside, cycloaraloside B, isolated from the roots ofAstragalus amarus Pall. (Leguminosae) has been established on the basis of chemical transformations and spectral characteristics: it is 20R,24S-epoxycycloartane-3 ,6 ,16 ,25-tetraol 3-O-O- -L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1 2)-(6-O-acetyl- -D-glucopyranoside)].Institute of Chemistry of Plant Substances, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 528–531, September–October, 1992. |