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Six cardenolides have been isolated from the fermented leaves ofGomphocarpus fruticosus R. Br.: cardenolide 1, uzarigenin, gomphotin, and cardenolides 5, 6, and 7, and from the unfermented leaves, desglucouzarin.
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From uzarigenin by partial synthesis desglucouzarin and a new glycoside — uzarigenin 3-O-α-L-rhamnopyranoside — have been obtained.
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Khar'kov Scientific-Research Pharmaceutical Institute. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 445–448, July–August, 1971.
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Chernobai, V.T., Komissarenko, N.F. Cardenolides of Gomphocarpus fruticosus and the partial synthesis of uzarigenin glycosides. Chem Nat Compd 7, 421–424 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00564729
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