H. Franzyk et al., Halohydrins and polyols derived from antirrhinoside: Structural revisions of muralioside and epimuralioside, J NAT PROD, 62(2), 1999, pp. 275-278
Treatment of the iridoid glucoside antirrhinoside (1) with pyridinium chlor
ide in dimethylformamide gave rise to the two possible trans-halohydrins, l
inarioside (4) and isolinarioside (5). Pyridinium bromide gave the two anal
ogous bromohydrins. It is shown that the iridoid glucosides 8-epi-muraliosi
de from Linaria arcusangeli and 7,8-epi-antirrhinoside from Linaria dalmati
ca are both identical with isolinarioside, and therefore, these names are r
edundant. The structure of muralioside isolated from Cymbalaria muralis is
revised to that of its 8-epimer (8), while the structure, of an isomeric, n
ew iridoid glucoside from Paulownia tomentosa has been elucidated to be 7 b
eta-hydroxyharpagide (3), the structure originally assigned to 8. In additi
on, 7 alpha-hydroxyharpagide (2), the known product from the base-catalyzed
hydrolytic opening of 1, has been isolated from Antirrhinum majus and thus
shown to be a natural product.