Araliaceae family

The alkaloid vasicine was first isolated from Adhatoda vasica in 1925 but the structure (996) was elucidated only after a great amount of work, culminating in two independent syntheses in 1935 (B-53MI21301). It was made subsequently by a simple route from 2-aminobenzaldehyde and 4-amino-2-hydroxybutyraldehyde (994) followed by dehydration of the tricyclic intermediate (995) (60TL(25)44>. Vasicine has bronchodilatory activity of a low order. Two related unnamed alkaloids (997) and (998) were obtained in 1965 from members of the Araliaceae family, viz. Mackinlaya subulata and M. macrosciadia both had been synthesized earlier (66AJC151). 

Ginseng is a herbaceous perennial plant in the Araliaceae family, which has been used for thousands of years to cure or prevent a large number of ailments. One of its most... 

American ginseng (P. quinqmfolius L.) is a native North American member of the Araliaceae, a family whose more than 800 species are found mostly in the tropics... 

The ginseng root is among the most important medicines used in traditional Chinese medicine. Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer, family Araliaceae, has been used in China for more than 2000 years to combat psychophysical tiredness and asthenia. The earliest known mention of ginseng in Europe goes back to 1711 when a Jesuit, Father Jartoux,1 who worked in Chinese missions, sent a letter to the general procurator in Paris, describing this plant, which... 

Cephaeline (2), psychotrine (6), ankorine (13), venoterpine (25), and ( )-anabasine (28) have also been found in some other species of Alangium (18,19) and the alkaloid, C28H35N303 [mp200°C [ ] —40° (pyridine)], in the bark of A. vitiense (20). It is interesting to note that emetine (1) has been isolated from Hedera helix L. (family Araliaceae) (21,22). 

The diterpenoids, which contain 20 carbon atoms, are represented by acyclic, monocyclic, bicyclic, tricyclic, and tetracyclic structures. Over 5,000 naturally occurring diterpenoids, many of which frequently occur in plant families Araliaceae, Aster-aceae, Cistaceae, Cupressaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Leguminosae, Labiatae, and Pinaceae, are known (32). The acyclic diterpenoid... 

The genera in the family of Araliaceae (Table 1) include aralia, ginseng, and ivy. 

Ginseng root consists of the dried roots of Panaxginseng C A.Meyer, family Araliaceae. Ginseng root is prodnced by cnltivation, principally in Korea, bnt also in China and Far Eastern Russia, the plants taking 4—6 years to reach maturity. Two commercial forms are available white Ginseng, the dried root (frequently with the onter skin peeled off) and... 

ELEUTHEROCOCCUS, Eleutherococci radix. Eleutherococcus consists of the dried roots and rhizome of Eleutherococcus senticosus Maxim. Acanthopanax senticosus (Rupr. et Maxim) Harms), family Araliaceae. 

American ginseng (Panax qidnquefolius, family Araliaceae)... 

The simple coumarins like aesculetin, fraxetin and isofraxinol also occur in families, Apocynaceae, Oleaceae and Araliaceae etc. 

Polyynes (polyacetylenes). Compounds with very diverse structures containing several C/C triple bonds are produced mainly by fungi (basidiomycete cultures) and plants of the families Asteraceae, Apiaceae, and Araliaceae. In addition to conjugated triple bonds the R often also contain C/C double bonds, allene units, thiophene and furan rings. On account of the close biosynthetic relationships between these compounds, the term R is used as a collective name even when only one C/C triple bond is present in the molecule. As result of the work of Bohimann, E. R. H. Jones, Sorensen, and others more than one thousand natural R are now known. The antibiotically active mycotnycin (C H, g02, Mr 198.22, mp. 75 °C) from basidiomycete cultures, dehydromatricaria ester (CiiHgO, Mr 172.18, mp. 105-106°C) from Asteraceae, and the thiarubrins may be mentioned as typical examples (see also ter-thienyls). 

Johns, S. R., and J. A. Lamberton Alkaloids of Mackinlaya Species (Family Araliaceae). J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun. 1965, 267. 

The relationships of several of acetylene-containing families (e.g., the Apiaceae, Araliaceae, Asteraceae, Campanulaceae, and Pittosporaceae) have long been enigmatic. Many of the groups with which the Apiaceae and Araliaceae have been placed lack acetylenic compounds, but are known to... 

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