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New Alkaloid and Aromatic Glucoside from the Flowers of Cymbidium Lunagrad Eternal Green.

ABSTRACT: In this paper, we investigated the chemical components of the flowers of Cymbidium Lunagrad Eternal Green for the first time. In the whole post-fertilization, a new alkaloid, named Lunagrad A (1), and a new aromatic glucoside, named Lunagrad B (2), were isolated from the MeOH extract of the flowers of Cymbidium Lunagrad Eternal Green, along with other six known aromatic compounds (3-8) and three flavone glucosides (9-11). These structures were determined on the basis of NMR experiments, as well as chemical evidence.

SUBMITTER: Song LY

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6017434 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

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New Alkaloid and Aromatic Glucoside from the Flowers of Cymbidium Lunagrad Eternal Green.

Song Li-Yan LY Huang Fang F Wang Yan Y Wu Zu-Jian ZJ Ouyang Ming-An MA

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20180103 1

In this paper, we investigated the chemical components of the flowers of Cymbidium Lunagrad Eternal Green for the first time. In the whole post-fertilization, a new alkaloid, named Lunagrad A (1), and a new aromatic glucoside, named Lunagrad B (2), were isolated from the MeOH extract of the flowers of Cymbidium Lunagrad Eternal Green, along with other six known aromatic compounds (3-8) and three flavone glucosides (9-11). These structures w ...[more]

PMID: 29301372

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