Abstract: | Two triterpene glycosides have been isolated from an alcoholic extract of the holothurianCucumaria frondosa collected in the Kola littoral, Barents Sea: the main component of the glycoside fraction — frondoside A (I) — and a minor component — frondoside A1 (II).Pacific Ocean Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far-Eastern Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok. Murmansk Marine Biological Institute. Russian Academy of Sciences, Dal'nie Zelentsy, Murmansk province. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 260–263, March–April, 1993. |