New nitrogenous and aromatic derivatives from Aglaia argentea and A. forbesii
Tetrahedron, Volume 52, No. 20, Year 1996
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Seeds and leaves of Aglaia argentea and bark of A. forbesii were extracted. The known cyclopentatetrahydrobenzofuran derivative rocaglaol (1) and the aminopyrrolidine odorine (5), were isolated together with nine new compounds: didesmethylrocaglamide (6), aglains A (7), B (8) and C (9), aglaforbesins A (10) and B (11), ethylrocaglaol (12) and forbaglins A (13) and B (14). Compounds 7-11 and 13,14 possess a new cyclopentatetrahydrobenzopyran and benzoxepine skeleton, respectively, linked to an odorine type moiety. All the structures were elucidated notably by 2D NMR spectroscopy. In addition, the structure of forbaglin A was established by X-ray crystallographic analysis. Didesmethylrocaglamide revealed strong cytotoxic activity against KB cells (IC50 0.006 μg/ml).