Abstract The controversy with regard to the structures of the closely related polyisoprenylated phenolic compounds, garcinol, isogarcinol, camboginol, cambogin, xanthochymol and isoxanthochymol is cleared by X-ray crystallographic analysis of the naturally occurring isogarcinol. The unusual UV spectral characteristics of the chromophore of isogarcinol are discussed.
[Gustafson, Kirk R.; Blunt, John W.; Munro, Murray H. G.; Fuller, Richard W.; McKee, Tawnya C.; Cardellina II, John H.; McMahon, James B.; Cragg, Gordon M.; Boyd, Michael R. Tetrahedron, 1992 , vol. 48, # 46 p. 10093 - 10102]