A side-cut of the industrial purification of an extract of yew needles
afforded eight new taxoids, including two derivatives of taxine A, th
e 7-O-acetyl- (2) and the 2-deacetyl- (3) derivatives. The new structu
res were established by spectroscopic methods, and some unusual featur
es of the H-1-NMR spectra of taxine A and its derivatives are discusse
d.