A pregnane steroid from Aglaia lawii and structure confirmation of cabraleadiol monoacetate by X-ray crystallography

Phytochemistry. 2001 Apr;56(7):775-80. doi: 10.1016/s0031-9422(00)00463-5.

Abstract

The pregnane steroid, (E)-aglawone, along with four known triterpenes, and a known sterol mixture were isolated from the bark of Aglaia lawii (Wight) Saldanha ex Ramamoorty (Meliaceae). The structural determination/identification was accomplished by a combination of 1D- and 2D-NMR spectroscopic techniques. The relative stereochemistry of the known triterpene, 20S,24S-epoxydammarane-3alpha,25-diol acetate, was also unequivocally determined for the first time by X-ray crystallography. The isolates were not active against various human cancer cell lines.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Molecular Structure
  • Phytosterols / chemistry*
  • Phytosterols / isolation & purification
  • Plant Stems / chemistry
  • Plants, Medicinal / chemistry*
  • Pregnanes / chemistry*
  • Pregnanes / isolation & purification

Substances

  • Phytosterols
  • Pregnanes
  • cabraleadiol monoacetate