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  2. Novel bioactive clerodane diterpenoids from the leaves and twigs of Casearia sylvestris

Novel bioactive clerodane diterpenoids from the leaves and twigs of Casearia sylvestris

  • J Nat Prod. 2002 Feb;65(2):95-9. doi: 10.1021/np010459m.
Nicholas H Oberlies 1 Jason P Burgess Hernán A Navarro Rosa Elena Pinos Craig R Fairchild Russell W Peterson Djaja D Soejarto Norman R Farnsworth A Douglas Kinghorn Mansukh C Wani Monroe E Wall
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Affiliation

  • 1 Chemistry and Life Sciences, Research Triangle Institute, P.O. Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2194, USA.
Abstract

Fractionation of a methanol extract of the leaves and twigs of Casearia sylvestris, as directed by activity against KB cell cytotoxicity, led to the isolation of three novel clerodane Diterpenoids, casearvestrins A-C (1-3). The structures of 1-3 were deduced from one- and two-dimensional NMR experiments, including relative stereochemical assignments based on ROESY correlations and COSY coupling constants. All three compounds displayed promising bioactivity, both in cytotoxicity assays against a panel of tumor cell lines and in Antifungal assays via the growth inhibition of Aspergillus niger in a disk diffusion assay.

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