Toxicants from mangrove plants, VI. Heritonin, a new piscicide from th mangrove plant Heritiera littoralis.
The mangrove plant Heritiera littoralis has been utilized by natives of the Philippines as a fish poison. The petroleum ether extract of this plant has shown toxicity to fish (Tilapia nilotica). A new piscicide, which was assigned the name heritonin [1], has been identified as one of the compounds with ichthyotoxicity. The structure was elucidated by spectroscopic methods.
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D000818:Animals; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D005399:Fishes / Q000502:physiology*; D007783:Lactones; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D010947:Plants, Toxic / Q000032:analysis*; D012717:Sesquiterpenes / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000633:toxicity; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
D007783:Lactones; D012717:Sesquiterpenes; C061641:heritonin