Sb. Hemlata,"kalidhar, DIDYRONIC ACID, AN ANTHRONE DERIVATIVE FROM CASSIA-DIDYMOBOTRYA FRESEM, Indian journal of chemistry. Sect. B: organic chemistry, including medical chemistry, 33(3), 1994, pp. 312-312
A new anthrone derivative, didyronic acid, has been obtained from the
pods of Cassia didymobotrya and characterised as 1,5,6,7-tetrahydroxya
nthrone-3-carboxylic acid which is a hitherto unreported compound. Chr
ysophanol, physcion, fallacinol, isorhamnetin, beta-sitosterol and bet
a-sitosteryl-beta-D-glucoside have also been isolated from the plant.