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Leonuketal Leonurus Japonicus is a plant that is used in common traditional Chinese medicine. In fact, the aerial parts of it are in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. Many diterpene metabolites have been discovered on plants of the same genus, with the common characteristics of the furanolabdane class. This class has been found to have interesting bioactivities...

Lucidumone Meroterpenoids are natural products containing a terpenoid and a non-terpenoid part. There have been many classes of such compounds isolated and characterized so far, from various natural sources, several of which have been found to have a wide range of biological activities. Meroterpenoids from various fungi usually show considerable biological activity and for this...

E. Ioannou et al have developed an integrated metabolomic platform for the identification of known compounds and detection of new metabolites at the early stages of phytochemical analysis. Vagiallene was isolated through a series of chromatographic separations, molecular formula C15H15Br2O5.

Spirobisnaphthalenes are a relatively new and rare family of secondary metabolites. Their core structure usually consists of two bicyclo[4.4.0]decane units, connected with one another through at least one spiro center. The reported compound is a novel symmetric spirobisnaphthalene with a unique structural feature. Spiroaxillarone A, molecular formula C19H12O6.

This article examines the use of ACD/Structure Elucidator to facilitate the teaching of NMR spectroscopic principles and its application in de novo structure elucidation of large complex organic molecules in an upper level organic chemistry class.

There are numerous ways that the 3D structure of a molecule can be elucidated, including the use of our own ACD/Structure Elucidator software. I had the chance to sit down with Dimitris Argyropoulos, our NMR Business Manager, after SMASH 2019 and discuss 3D structure elucidation and the technology involved in its current and future use.

Chloraserrtone A, a new sesquiterpenoid dimer with two lindenane-type sesquiterpenoid monomers bridged by two six-membered rings, was isolated from Chloranthus serratus by Bai et al. It represents the first lindenane-type sesquiterpenoid dimer with an extremely unique skeleton, molecular formula C3H36O9.