New syntheses of xanthotoxol and xanthotoxin

✍ Scribed by Dilip K. Chatterjee; Kalyanmay Sen

• Book ID: 104240254
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1969
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 104 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)88928-0

✦ Synopsis

Xanthotoxol and xanthotoxin are furocoumarins that occur in a number of indigenous plants (2). Xanthotoxin has been found to be having skin photosensitising activity, whereas xanthotoxol is practically inactive (3).