A novel minor metabolite (taxane?) from Taxus canadensis needles

✍ Scribed by Qing Wen Shi; Françoise Sauriol; Orval Mamer; Lolita O. Zamir

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 146 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(02)01535-6

✦ Synopsis

A novel minor metabolite 1 with an unprecedented skeleton was isolated from the needles of Taxus canadensis. A biogenesis from taxinine an abundant taxane is proposed. This is the first example of a taxane with a 6/6/8/6-membered ring skeleton.