The constituents of Harungana Madagascariensis Poir.

✍ Scribed by E. Ritchie; W.C. Taylor

• Book ID: 104240774
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1964
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 279 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)89507-1

✦ Synopsis

Harungana madagascariensis Pair. (syn. Haronna madagascariensis Choia), (family Guttiferae), a small tree native to Africa and Madagascar is said (1) to be used for a variety of medicinal purposes by the indigenous peoples. From the bark which produces a brilliant orange sap, Stout et al. (2)

-reported in 1962, the isolation of a pigment, harunganin, to which structure (VI) was assigned as a result of X-ray crystallographic studies. The pigment was not characterised in any other way.