Constituents of the roots of Rubia yunnanensis

  • Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo). 2002 Feb;50(2):276-9. doi: 10.1248/cpb.50.276.
Meei-Jen Liou  1 ,  Pei-Lin Wu ,  Tian-Shung Wu
Affiliations
  • 1. Department of Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China.
PMID: 11848223 DOI: 10.1248/cpb.50.276
Abstract

Four new naphthohydroquinones, rubinaphthins A (1), B (2), C (3), and D (4), together with 11 known compounds were isolated and characterized from the roots of Rubia yunnanensis. The structures of 1-4 were elucidated by spectral analysis and chemical transformation.

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