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Oxidation studies on Andrographolide.

Natural product research (2006-11-28)
Vijayavitthal T Mathad, Satish Kumar, Kanwal Raj
ABSTRACT

Jones oxidation of Andrographolide (1), gave mixture of three products (3-dehydroandrographolide (5), 3,19-bis dehydroandrographolide (6) and 19-dehydroandrographolide (7). Tritylation of andrographolide at C19-OH resulted to products 8 and diene 9, which can be converted to its acetate 10 and oxidation product 11.