Cucurbitacin F in Seeds of Kageneckia angustifolia (Rosaceae)
Orlando Mun˜oz
a,*, Ana M. Estevez-Braun
b, Angel G. Ravelo and Antonio G. Gonza´lez
a Faculty ofSciences, Universidad de Chile, Las Palmeras 3425, Santiago, Chile.
E-mail: omunoz@uchile.cl
b Instituto Universitario de Bio Orga´nica
“Antonio Gonza´lez”, Universidad de La Laguna, Avenida Francisco Sa´nchez 38206, Tenerife, Spain
* Author for correspondence and reprint requests Z. Naturforsch57 c,208Ð209 (2002);
received September 19/October 30, 2001 Kageneckia angustifolia,Cucurbitacin, Prunasin
Cucurbitacin F and the cyanogenetic compounds pru- nasin were isolated and identified from the seeds ofKa- geneckia angustifolia.