A new butenolide, designated odoratinolide (1), was isolated from the bark of the Vietnamese medicinal plant Machilus odoratissima. Its structure was determined by spectroscopic analyses.
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P. M. G. thanks Vietnam National University, Hanoi (Vietnam) and the International Foundation for Science, Stockholm (Sweden) for support of this work.
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Published in Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 186–187, March–April, 2011.
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Giang, P.M., Otsuka, H. & Son, P.T. A new minor butenolide from Machilus odoratissima . Chem Nat Compd 47, 201–202 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10600-011-9881-9
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