Virescenols: Sources, structures and chemistry

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 975-988

  Marcotullio, Maria Carla ^a   Rosati, Ornelio ^a   Curini, Massimo ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologia del Farmaco   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diazoketones; Diterpenes; Isopimarane; Sandaracopimarane; Steroids; Virescenols; Virescenosides

Indexed keywords

7ALPHA HYDROXYVIRESCENOL A AGLYCONE; ALTROSE; ALTRURONIC ACID; DITERPENE; FUNGAL EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VIRESCENOL A; VIRESCENOL B; VIRESCENOL DERIVATIVE; VIRESCENOSIDE A; VIRESCENOSIDE B; VIRESCENOSIDE C; VIRESCENOSIDE D; VIRESCENOSIDE E; VIRESCENOSIDE F; VIRESCENOSIDE G; VIRESCENOSIDE H; VIRESCENOSIDE L; VIRESCENOSIDE M; VIRESCENOSIDE N; VIRESCENOSIDE O; VIRESCENOSIDE P; VIRESCENOSIDE Q; VIRESCENOSIDE R; VIRESCENOSIDE S; VIRESCENOSIDE T; VIRESCENOSIDE U; VIRESCENOSIDE V; VIRESCENOSIDE W; VIRESCENOSIDE X;

ACREMONIUM; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DRUG TRANSFORMATION; EHRLICH ASCITES TUMOR; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; MULBERRY; MUSHROOM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 77954289363     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0800300627     Document Type: Review

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