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Sesquiterpene Lactones from Elephantopus scaber

  • Ni Ni Than , Serge Fotso , Madhumati Sevvana , George M. Sheldrick , Heinz H. Fiebig , Gerhard Kelter and Hartmut Laatsch EMAIL logo

The ethanolic and acetone extracts of the whole plant of Elephantopus scaber were found to contain ethyl hexadecanoate, ethyl-9,12-octadecadienoate, ethyl-(Z)-9-octadecenoate, ethyl octadecanoate, lupeol, stigmasterol, stigmasterol glucoside, deoxyelephantopin (1) and two new germacranolide sesquiterpene lactones named 17,19-dihydrodeoxyelephantopin (2) and iso-17,19- dihydrodeoxyelephantopin (3) whose stereostructures were determined by spectroscopic methods, comparison with reported data and single-crystal X-ray analysis.

Received: 2004-9-16
Published Online: 2014-6-2
Published in Print: 2005-2-1

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