1. Institut für Organische Chemie der Technischen Universität Berlin, D-1000 Berlin 12, W. Germany;2. Smithsonian Institution, Department of Botany, Washington, DC 20560, U.S.A.
Abstract:
The investigation of Aster umbellatus afforded six new eudesmanolides and a new selina-triene and from Aster exilis a new tremetone derivative was isolated. The structures were elucidated by spectroscopic methods and by some chemical transformations. The chemotaxonomic situation is discussed briefly.