M. Budesinsky et al., STRUCTURE OF SESQUITERPENIC LACTONES OF SOME SPECIES OF SUBTRIBE CENTAUREINAE DUMORT, Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, 59(5), 1994, pp. 1175-1202
The authors describe in full the elucidation of complete structures of
guaianolide and germacranolide lactones, isolated from some species o
f genera Centaurea L., Chartolepis CASS. and others belonging to subtr
ibe Centaureinae DUMORT. The structures were determined mainly on the
basis of detailed analysis of H-1 NMR and CD spectra. The structure of
linichlorin B (XV) was determined by X-ray diffraction analysis.