Natural Product Sciences
- Volume 2 Issue 2
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- Pages.96-101
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- 1996
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- 1226-3907(pISSN)
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- 2288-9027(eISSN)
Chemical and Biological Investigations of the Constitutive Phenolics of Two Egyptian Folk-Medicinal Plants; A Novel Phenolic from the Galls of Tamarix aphylla
- Barakat, Heba H. (Dept. of Tanning Materials and Proteins) ;
- Nada, Somaia A. (Dept. of Pharmacology, National Research Center)
- Published : 1996.12.01
Abstract
A new natural product, 3,4,8-trihydroxybenzopyranopyran-6,9-dione was isolated from the aqueous ethanolic gall extract of Tamarix aphylla (Tamaricaceae) along with the known phenolics, monodecarboxyellagic acid and brevifolin carboxylic acid as well. The structures have been established by ESI-MS,
Keywords
- Tamarix aphylla;
- Tamaricaceae;
- galls;
- Phenolic lactone;
- 3,4,8-trihydroxybenzopyranopyran-6,9-dione;
- Phragmites australis;
- Gramineae;
- flowers;
- C-glycosyl flavonoids;
- antiinflammatory;
- antipyretic;
- ulcerogenic activities