Chemical Studies on Oriental Plant Drugs. XIV. Protopanaxadiol, a Genuine Sapogenin of Ginseng Saponins

1 January 1966

journal article
research article
Published by Pharmaceutical Society of Japan in CHEMICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN

Vol. 14 (6) , 595-600
https://doi.org/10.1248/cpb.14.595

Abstract

The genuine sapogenin of ginsenosides-Rb1, -Rb2, and -Re, saponlns of Ginseng roots, was represented by protopanaxadiol, and panaxadiol was an artifact formed during the process of the acid hydrolysis of these saponlns.