Five new steroids, the cholest-4-ene-3,22-diones : tumacone A (1), tumacone B (2), tumacoside A (3), tumacoside B (4), and a furostenone: tumaquenone (5), besides diosgenone (6), were isolated from the aerial parts of Solanum nudum. Their structures were determined by 2D NMR, MS analyses and chemical correlations. Steroid 3 and 5 displayed in vitro antimalarial activity against a Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine-resistant FCB-1 strain (IC50 27 and 16 mu M). The observed stereodependent cyclization into spiroketals of two 16-O isomers is discussed.
antimalarial, steroids, Solanum nudum, cholest-4-en-3, 22-dione, tumacones A and B, tumacosides A and B, tumaquenone, stereodependent cyclization
Publication DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4020(98)00632-2Journal NLM ID: 2984170RPublisher: Pergamon Press
Institutions: Laboratoire de Chimie, URA 401 CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
Methods: 13C NMR, 1H NMR, EI-MS, IR, optical rotation measurement, acetylation, CC, HMBC, DEPT, NOESY, HR-FAB-MS, extraciton, HETCOR