Phytochemistry

Aryltetralin lignans from Podophyllum hexandrum and Podophyllum peltatum

DE Jackson, PM Dewick

Index: Jackson, David E.; Dewick, Paul M. Phytochemistry (Elsevier), 1984 , vol. 23, # 5 p. 1147 - 1152

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Abstract

Abstract Roots of Podophyllum hexandrum and P. peltatum contain the same range of ten aryltetralin lignans: podophyllotoxin, 4′-demethylpodophyllotoxin, α-peltatin, β-peltatin, desoxypodophyllotoxin, podophyllotoxone, isopicropodophyllone, 4′- demethyldesoxypodophyllotoxin, 4′-demethylpodophyllotoxone and 4′- demethylisopicropodophyllone, although the relative proportions are markedly different. ...