Author(s): Saboor Ahmad, Mohammad Jahangir and Mohsin Abdul Karim
Article publication date: 1983-03-01
Vol. 1 No. 1 (yearly), pp. 102-106.
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Keywords
Saudi Arabia, plants, antitumor agents
Abstract
As a result of continuing search among Saudi Arabian plants for new naturally occurring potential antitumor agents, an ethanolic extract of Euphorbia Iriaculeala Forssk. has met criteria for conflffi1ed activity in PL-388 leukemia system. The active extract has led to the isolation and characterization of a new diterpene, Triaculetin. This paper describes the isolation and structural elucidation of the new diterpene.