New Furanoditerpenoids from Croton jatrophoides
MBWAMBO ZH, FOUBERT K, CHACHA M, KAPINGU MC, MAGADULA JJ, MOSHI MM, LEMIERE F, GOUBITZ K, FRAANJE J, PESCHAR R, VLIETINCK A, APERS S AND PIETERS L.
PLANTA MEDICA
75:262-267 2008


Abstract :

Four furanoditerpenoids were isolated from roots of Croton jatrophoides (Euphorbiaceae) collected in Tanzania. In addition to the known compounds penduliflaworosin and teucvin (mallotucin A), a new teucvin isomer, which was named isoteucvin, and a furanoditerpenoid with a new skeleton, for which the name jatrophoidin was adopted, were isolated. Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic methods such as ESIMS and NMR, including 1H, 13C and two-dimensional NMR.  The crystal structures of isoteucvin and jatrophoidin were solved using single-crystal X-ray diffraction and with this technique also the absolute configuration of jatrophoidin was established. The refined crystal structure of isoteucvin has the same (absolute) configuration as jatrophoidin, although the X-ray diffraction data of isoteucvin were not conclusive with respect to the absolute configuration.