HOPEAPHENOL AN EXTRACTIVE OF HEARTWOOD OF HOPEA ODORATA AND BALANOCARPUS HEIMII
HOPEAPHENOL AN EXTRACTIVE OF HEARTWOOD OF HOPEA ODORATA AND BALANOCARPUS HEIMII
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DOI:
10.1039/jr9650000406
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发表时间:
1965-01-01
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SELLARS, K
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COGGON, P;JANES, NF;SELLARS, K
THE extraction of the heartwood of Hopea odorata (thingan) was first carried out in 1951. Boiling light petroleum removed waxy materials which were not further investigated, and subsequent ether extraction gave a brown solid (7%) which was best purified by crystallisation from acetone-acetic acid and then gave hopeaphenol (ca. 1%) as colourless crystals. The same material was later obtained by a similar extraction of Balanocarpus heimii (chengal). Both of these plants are Dipterocarpaceae indigenous to South East Asia, and there has been dispute as to whether chengal should be merged with the Hopea genus. Chengal and various Hopea species are the source of dammar resins which have been extensively investigated in recent years. The occurrence of the same very unusual extractive in chengal and in a Hopea might reinforce the viewla that there is little justification for a separate BaZanocarpus genus.Since the original isolation in 1951, there has been intermittent work on hopeaphenol but progress has been hindered by the inability of classical methods of combustion analysis and molecular weight determinations to define the molecular formula of the phenol or its derivatives. Very recently mass spectrometry showed conclusively that hopeaphenol has the formula C56H42012, and that ten of the oxygen atoms are present as hydroxyl groups. Investigations are proceeding but, in view of the complexity of the problem, it seems proper to report now the existence of the compound, which appears to be of a unique type, and the results of the earlier investigations.