Abstract: | Summary It has been established that the carbohydrate moiety of acanthophyllosides B and C contain D-quinovose. Corrected structural formulas of acanthophyllosides B and C have been put forward. The hypothesis has been expressed that D-quinovose is present in a number of glycosides isolated from plants of the family Caryophyllaceae.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 806–809, November–December, 1977. |