Studies of Zoapatle I. The Extraction of Zoapatle (Montanoa Tomentosa) and the Identification of 21 -normontanol as the Initial Decomposition Product of Zoapatanol

• Main Authors: Guido B. Marcelle, Nuntavan Bunyapraphatsara, Geoffrey A. Cordell, Harry H.S. Fong, Kyriakos C. Nicolaou, Robert E. Zipkin
• Other Authors: University of Illinois at Chicago
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Chemistry; Medicine; Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/30762
• Institution: Mahidol University

Hot H2O and hexane were found to be inappropriate to extract zoapatanol (1) from the leaves of Montanoa tomentosa ssp. tomentosa; EtOH and EtOAc, on the other hand, were far more effective. A number of Montanoa species and subspecies were examined for the presence of zoapatanol (1). Zoapatanol is hi...