In order to confirm the previously proposed stereochemistry for bacris
pine (1), several high-field 2D NMR (500 MHz) experiments were carried
out. Complete NMR assignments, as well as the validation of the relat
ive stereochemistry of 1-deoxybacrispine (2), were established. In an
investigation of the aerial parts of Baccharis crispa, a medicinal pla
nt from Argentina, two new neoclerodanes (4, and 5) have been isolated
and their structures determined by spectroscopic means.