1999 Volume 47 Issue 10 Pages 1384-1387
Five new glycosides of 14, 15-seco- and 13, 14 : 14, 15-diseco-type pregnanes, including a new pregnane, 2α-hydroxyhirundigenin, were isolated, in addition to one known glycoside, cynatratoside B, from the roots of Tylophora tanakae MAXIM. Their structures were elucidated by spectral and chemical means.