Structures of Merremosides B and D, New Antiserotonic Resin-Glycosides from the Tuber of Merremia Mammosa, An Indonesian Folk Medicine

Abstract

Six new resin-glycosides (merremoside) were isolated from an Indonesian folk medicine (“Bidara upas”), the tuber of Merremia mammosa (Con-volvulaceae), and the structures of two antiserotonic glycosides, named merremosides b (1) and d (2), have been determined on the basis of chemical and physicochemical evidence. © 1988, The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan. All rights reserved.