Coumarins isolated from Esenbeckia alata (Rutaceae)

Published Date

February 2014, Vol.52:38–40, doi:10.1016/j.bse.2013.12.011

Title 

Coumarins isolated from Esenbeckia alata(Rutaceae)

• Author 

• Olimpo García-Beltrán ^a,,
• Carlos Areche ^a
• Bruce K. Cassels ^a
• Luis Enrique Cuca Suárez ^b

• aDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
• bUniversidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Química, Laboratorio de Investigación en Productos Naturales Vegetales, Kr 30 Cl 45, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia

Received 12 August 2013. Accepted 14 December 2013. Available online 9 January 2014.

Highlights

• •
  Four furocoumarins were isolated from Esenbeckia alata.
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  3-(1′,1′-dimethylallyl)coumarins could be used as chemotaxonomic markers for family Rutaceae.
• •
  These compounds were reported for the first time from E. alata.

Keywords

• Esenbeckia alata
• Rutaceae
• Furocoumarins
• Chemotaxonomy

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