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  Vol. 3 No. 9
 

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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research Vol. 3 (9), pp. 660–665, September 2009

ISSN 1996-0875 © 2009 Academic Journals  

   

 

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Terpens from aerial parts of Euphorbia splendida

 

Seyed Abdolmajid Ayatollahi1,4, Asie Shojaii1,4*, Farzad Kobarfard1,2, Mitra Nori3, Mohammad Fathi5 and Mohammad Iqbal Choudhari6

 

1Department of pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University, M.C., Tehran, Iran.

2Department of medicinal chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University, M.C., Tehran, Iran.

3Department of biology, School of Science, Arak University, Arak, Iran.

4Phytochemistry Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University, M.C., Tehran, Iran.

5International center for chemical and biological sciences, H. E. J. Research Instituted of Chemistry, Karachi University, Karachi, Pakistan.

6Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University, M.C., Tehran, Iran.

 

*Corresponding author. E-mail:shojaii_asie@yahoo.com. Tel: 021-88209620.

 

Accepted 9 July, 2009

 
     
 

Abstract

 
     
 

Euphorbia splendida Mobayen (Euphorbiaceae) is one of the Euphorbia species that has not been studied so far. The aerial parts of this plant was collected from Arak, Iran and extracted with methanol (by maceration). The dried extract was subjected to exhaustive separation by column chromatography and preparative TLC. Two terpens, a lupane-type triterpenoid and a diterpene with a tricylic lathyrane skeletone, were isolated and purified and identified as 3-28-dihydroxylup-20(29)-ene (betulin) and decipinone respectively for the first time from this plant. The structures of the isolated compounds were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic methods including 1 and 2 D-NMR, IR, UV and MS.

 

Key words: Chromatography, diterpene, triterpen, betulin, decipinone.

 

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