Department of Organic Chemistry, University of La Laguna, Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas, C.S.I.C., Tenerife, Spain
Abstract:
From stems and leaves of Semele androgyna L. the new steroid sapogenin 25S-dihydrodracogenin (Ia) has been isolated and its structure confirmed by conversion into the acetates of 25R-dihydrosansevierigenin (Id) and ruscogenin (If) and by partial hydrogenation of dracogenin.