Isolation and Structure Elucidation of Two New Xanthones from Gentiana azurium Bunge (Fam. Gentianaceae)
O. Purev
a, Kh. Oyun
a, G. Odontuya
a, A. M. Tankhaeva
a, G. G. Nikolaeva
a, Khalid M. Khan
b, Syed Tasadaque Ali Shah
b, and Wolfgang Voelter
ca Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, MAS, Ulaanbaatar-51, Mongolia
b HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270, Pakistan
c Abteilung für Physikalische Biochemie, Physiologisch-chemisches Institut der Universität, Hoppe-Seyler-Straße 4, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Fax: +49(0)-70 71-29 33 48. E-mail: wolfgang.voelter@uni-tuebingen.de Dedicated to Prof. Viqar Uddin Ahmad on the occasion of his 60thbirthday Z. Naturforsch.57 b, 331Ð334 (2002); received November 27, 2001
Gentiana azuriumBunge, Gentianaceae, Xanthones
Two new natural xanthones, 1,3,5-trihydroxy-8-methoxyxanthone (1) and 3,5-dihydroxy-8- methoxy-1-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl xanthone (2) were isolated along with two known xan- thones from Gentiana azurium Bunge (Fam. Gentianaceae). Their structures were deter- mined on the basis of their spectral data.