Steroids of the spirostan and furostan series from plants of the genus Allium. Structure of anzurogenin A from Allium suvorovii and A. stipitatum

The collective fruit of the cocultivatedAllium suvorovii Rgl. andA. stipitatum Rgl. (familyLiliaceae) has yielded a new genin of the spirostan series — anzurogenin A, which is 2,3,5-trihydroxy-(25R)-spirostan-6-one.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 68–73, January–February, 1988.