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A new trihydroxy fatty acid ester from the root of Isatis indigotica

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From the EtOAC extract of the root of Isatis indigotica, a new trihydroxylated monounsaturated fatty acid ester 1, together with two known fatty acids 2–3 that were separated for the first time, has been isolated. The structure of this new linoleic acid-derived metabolite was established as methyl-8,11,12-trihydroxy-9Zoctadecenoic acid on the basis of spectroscopic data.

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The authors acknowledge the assistance of Prof. Han-Qing Zhang, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This work was co-financed by grants from the Jiangsu province administration of traditional chinese medicine basic research projects (HZ0704407KJD).

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Correspondence to Dong-Dong Sun.

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Published in Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 316–317, May–June, 2011.

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Sun, DD., Dong, WW., Li, X. et al. A new trihydroxy fatty acid ester from the root of Isatis indigotica . Chem Nat Compd 47, 352–354 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10600-011-9930-4

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