Plant Diversity ›› 2007, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (03): 375-376.

• Articles • Previous Articles    

A New Lactone from Passiflora edulis (Passifloraceae)

LU Qing1 , TAN Rui2 , ZHANG Yong-Li1 , CHENG Yong-Xian1   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China, Kunming Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences , Kunming 650204 , China; 2 College of Bioengineering , Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
  • Received:2006-09-26 Online:2007-06-25 Published:2007-06-25
  • Contact: CHENG Yong-Xian

Abstract: A new unsaturated hexalactone named passiflactone (1 ) has been isolated from the petroleum ether extract of crude juice of Passiflora edulis Sims . The structure was identified on the basis of extensive NMR and MS techniques . No antioxidative effect was observed for compound 1 against DPPH cavenging assay .

Key words: Passiflora edulis

CLC Number: