Summary
A preliminary study has been made of starfish of the family Echinasteridae for their content of anthraquinone pigments.
A sulfated anthraquinone — the Na salt of isorhodoptilometrin 2′-sulfate has been isolated from the starfishHenricia leviuscula.
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Pacific Ocean Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Scientific Center of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Vladivostok. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 148–151, March–April, 1979.
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Utkina, N.K., Maksimov, O.B. Quinoid pigments of echinodermata VII. Anthraquinones of the starfishHenricia leviuscula . Chem Nat Compd 15, 124–127 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00570777
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