Affiliation: | a Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, P.O. Box 6154, CEP 13081, Campinas, S. Paulo, Brazil * Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, P.O. Box 6154, CEP 13081, Campinas, S. Paulo, Brazil |
Abstract: | Analysis of ethereal extracts of the roots of Didymopanax macrocarpus and D. vinosus gave falcarinol, dehydrofalcarinol, falcarinone, dehydrofalcarinone and octa-9(Z); 17-diene-12,14-diyne-1,16-diol. The presence of these dehydro compounds in the Araliaceae is very unusual and may constitute an index for chemotaxonomic characterization of the genus. |