title: Phenolic compounds from tournefortia sarmentosa
abstract: Three new isoprenylbenzenes, tournefolins A (1), B (2), and C (3), and two new 2-ethoxy-4,5-dihydroxybenzoyl compounds, 4 and 5, together with the known compounds, salicylic acid and allantoin, were isolated from the stems of Tournefortia sarmentosa. The structures of new compounds were elucidated as 2-(4beta-methyltetrahydrofuran-2alpha-yl)-5-(4beta-methyltetrahydrofu ran-2beta-yl)-1,4-dihydroxybenzene (1), methyl 5-(5-hydroxy-2-methoxyphenyl)-3-furoate (2), methyl 5-(2, 5-dihydroxyphenyl)-3-furoate (3), 2-ethoxy-4,5-dihydroxybenzaldehyde (4), and 2-ethoxy-4,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (5), on the basis of spectral and chemical methods. The relative configuration of 1 was determined by single-crystal X-ray crystallography.
authors.affiliation: National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Taipei 112, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan, Republic of China, and Department of Research, Veterans General Hospital, Taipei 11.
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Shiao