Peroxyferolide: a cytotoxic germacranolide hydroperoxide from Liriodendron tulipifera

1 January 1976

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 11,p. 402-403
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39760000402

Abstract

An allyl hydroperoxy sesquiterpene lactone, peroxyferolide (2), from the leaves of L. tulipifera was characterized by spectral and chemical methods and prepared from lipiferolide (1) by photosensitized oxygenation.