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UROSPERMAL,
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A GLUCOSIDE
FROM UROSPERMUM
PICROZDES
MOHAMED M. A. AMER,* OSAMA M. SALAMA,* FERDINAND BoHLMANNt and J~RGEN ZlEsCHEt *Pharmacognosy
Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt; t Institute for Organic Chemistry, Technical University of Berlin, D-1000 Berlin 12, West Germany (Received 20 May 1983)
Key Word Index-Urospermum
Abstract-The
picroides; Compositae; sesquiterpene lactones; urospermal A glucoside.
roots of Urospermum
picroides
afforded urospermal A 15-O-@glucoside.
The aerial parts of Urospermum picroides (L.) Stop. ex F. W. Schmidt contain the melampolide urospermal A and the p-hydroxyphenyl acetate of the corresponding glucoside [l]. We have now studied the polar fractions from the roots. Thin-laver chromatoaranhv afforded two compounds, the giucosides 1 a;d -2..Acetylation gave the acetates 3 and 4, the latter being identical with the acetylation product of the glucoside 2 isolated from the aerial parts [ 11.The ‘H NMR spectrum of 3 (Table 1) was close to that of 4. However, the signals of the phydroxyphenyl acetate were replaced by an additional acetate methyl signal. As observed previously [l] the hydrogen-bonded 8a-hydroxyl group was not acetylated. The ‘H NMR spectrum of the natural compound 1 could be measured only in deutero-pyridine (Table 1).All signals were assigned by spin decoupling in the usual way, starting with the H-7 signal although all signals were
“CHO
1 R=R’=H
2 R=H,R’=COCHpCsH40H(p) 3 R = R’= AC 4 R=Ac,R’=COCHzC6H40Ac(p)
Table 1. ‘H NMR spectral data of compounds 1 and 3 (400 MHz, TMS as internal standard)
1 (C,D,N)
3 (CDC&)
H-l H-2
6.67 br dd
6.81 br dd
H-2 H-3 H-3 H-4 H-6 H-7 H-8 H-9 H-9 H-13 H-13 H-14 H-15 H-15 H-l’ H-2 H-3 H-4’ H-5’ H-6; H-6; OH OAc
2.26 ddd 2.68 ddd 1.80br dd 5.15br d 4.98 dd 2.65 dddd 4.27 ddd 2.98 dd 2.44 br d 6.6Odd 6.33 dd 9.49 br s 4.77d 4.441
2.53 ddd
4.91 d 4.OOdd 4.20 m 3.95 m 4.54 dd 4.36 dd 6.06d -
2.54 m 2.6 1 ddd 2.03 m 5.15br d 4.57dd 2.45 dddd 3.90 dddd 2.70dd 2.37 br d 6.52dd 6.30dd 9.44 br s 4.4Od 4.33d 4.58d 5.04dd 5.22 dd 5.08 dd 3.73 dd 4.26dd 4.17dd 6.07 d 2.08 s 2.03 s 2.02 s 1.98s
J (Hz): 1,2 = 9; 1,2’ = 8; 1,9 _ 1; 5,6 = 6, 7 = 7, 8 = 14 7,13 = 3.5; 7, 13’ = 3; 8, OH = 11,5; 8,9 =5;8,9’=11;9,9’= 16;13,13’=2;15,15’=12; l’, 2’ = 8.5; 2, 3’= 3’, 4’ = 4;, 5’ = 9.5; 5’, 6; = 2.5; 5’, 6; = 5; 6;, 6; = 12.