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.