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Five condensed furanocoumarins from the root of Heracleum candicans Wall.

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Three new spirotrifuranocoumarins, canditririns C–E (1–3), a new spirotetrafuranocoumarin, canditetrarin A (4), and a new tetrafuranocoumarin, canditetrarin B (5), were isolated from the roots of Heracleum candicans Wall. Their structures were established using spectral methods.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to Mr. K. Minoura for NMR spectral recordings and to Mrs. M. Fujitake for mass spectra recordings at Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences. This work was partially supported by NSFC (project 30270097), China.

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  1. Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 4-20-1 Nasahara, Takatsuki, Osaka, 569-1094, Japan

    Masahiko Taniguchi, Atsuko Inoue, Makio Shibano & Kimiye Baba

  2. Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Academia Sinica, Nanjing, 20014, China

    Nian-He Wang

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Taniguchi, M., Inoue, A., Shibano, M. et al. Five condensed furanocoumarins from the root of Heracleum candicans Wall.. J Nat Med 65, 268–274 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11418-010-0488-4

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