Hydrangenone, a New Isoprenoid with an Unprecedented Skeleton from Salvia hydrangeaClick to copy article linkArticle link copied!
- M. Moridi Farimani
- Salman Taheri
- Samad N. Ebrahimi
- M. Babak Bahadori
- Hamid R. Khavasi
- Stefanie Zimmermann
- Reto Brun
- Matthias Hamburger
Abstract

Hydrangenone, a new heptacyclic isoprenoid with a 6/7/6/5/5 membered carbon ring skeleton, was isolated from the aerial parts of Salvia hydrangea. The structure was established by extensive NMR spectroscopic methods. The relative and absolute configuration of 1 was assigned by NOESY and X-ray crystallographic analysis and by comparison of experimental and calculated electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra. Compound 1 showed in vitro antiplasmodial activity, with an IC50 value of 1.4 μM against P. falciparum. A plausible biosynthetic pathway of 1 was also proposed.
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