Rue dteey Dr, Taston Erna MS
ae “20 SEP 1998
» NIP. 5 190 781344
ee Colouring Matters of the Wood of Arcocarpus heterophyllus:
tN | Pat VI"—Cycloheterophyllin, a Flavone Linked to
Bet la Three Isoprenoid Groupst¢
ny + A.V. RAMA RAO, Glia MALA VARADAN & K. VENKATARAMAN
National Chemical Laboratery. Yoone 8
From the bark of A. hecerophyllus Lark. (wo new
a Mennscript received 30 July 1970
shave been Isolated, The structure of the relatively major pigment, cyciohe whan been
deduced as (1), batéd on UV, IR, NAR and mace spectral dace, ln is the frse
avons having three Isopreasld groupe attached te the chromont ie aspects of
‘Morus and Artocarpus flaveaoids are dlecusted.
'N recent years we have reported" the isolation
I of a new flavanone and seven new flavones from
: the heartwood of A. heterophvilus Lamk. (A.
| acelin Seater ste ai
A
flavonoids, including morin ‘and
eyanomaclutin Teolated earlier be Perkin: ie the
ry ‘ylic orientation of hydroxy] groups in the
tT) ing. The A-ring, as in numerous flavonoids, is
derived from. phloroglucinol. Six of the new
flayones earry one or two isoprenoid units attached
to the chromone nucleus. Examination of the
trunk bark has now revealed ile presence of at least
two flavonoids present in very minute quantities,
which were different from the compounds isolated
from the heartwood. The relatively major pigment,
for which the trivial name cycleheterophvllin is
Proposed, is assigned the structure I on the basix of
spectral cvidence.
aD
Hexane and benzene extracts of the trunk bark,
2a removal of solvent and shaking with cold methta-
Rol, gave = colourless crystalline compound, m.p.
Sigs Wdentied as petulindg acid’ Frome te acne:
pol-oluble portion two flavonoid pigments were
Bolated in yields of Jess than 0-01 and 0001%
Fisrectively by an elaborate procedure described fn
the experimental part.
Pat Ve Tadinn J-Chome 7 94, 101
TREE Communion Na” fe ;
: sepaistel Cot Tin athe on the een of hi
voin Tay cee
Cycloheternphyilin erystallizes from methanol
yellow needles, im.y. 205-65. It giver 3. wine-red
colour in the Shinoda test and i green colour with
alcoholic ferric chloride. The ‘elements! analy
and molecular weight (il* 502) are in agreement
with the molecular formula CyuHaOy. It forms 1
dimethyl ether (M* 530) with ethereal diazomethane:
a green cokiuration with alcoholic ferric elke
indicates the presence af a banded hiydeuxy'
On prolonged treatment witht excess
sulphate and potassium earbonate in builing acetone,
2 trimethy) ether (BI* 544) was obtained Hydro
genation of the trimethyl ether in aeetic 3 I
lyst yielded
ative (4° 550), showing il
nic bonds.
Tnits UV spectrum Dette", mg (log e), 264 (4-326),
297 (4°57), 402 (4-342): eyeloheterophiyllin closely
fesembies evcloattacarpin (II), rather than am
carpin (ly Rare 2] We two major flave
Fier elated from ic heartwood? The long
wavelength absorption in_artocarpin and cyclo:
artocarpin is at 324 and 370 ma tespectively. and
the large bathochromic shift in the latter was ex-
plained? by the caplanarity of rings B, C and D,
Fesulting in maximum conjugation betwee
chromone and pens} rings. In artocarpin
,Y-dimethylally] substituent forces the. 2-;henyl
group out-of-plane with the chromene ring. The
Presence of a free 4'-Wvdroxyl group as in all the
other Artocarpus pigments was established by the
shift of the 402 mp band to 440 mg with 2 marked
increase in intensity on adding sodium ethoxide to
the ethanolic solu
‘The TR spectrum (nujol) of cycloheterophy i
showed characteristic features for the 22-dimethy
chromene system? with bands at 1378 and 1360
cm attributable £0 the gew-dimethyl groups and
a —C=C— band at 1630 em. addition,
hands were abserved at 3460 (ishenolic OH) and
1645 cm" (CoO in a S-hydroxyfavene).
The NMR spectra of cyeloheter
derivatives
data, ‘The NM spectrum of eyeloheterFig.
allyl
Protons and the
c) indicates the absence
(solvents DMSO and pytidin :
tkoxyi jand the presence of three dimethyl-
on pa. Two vioyl doublet v4
(chemical shifts on the + scale)
& six-proton singlet at 8:53
f
ts at 342 and 4.27
) in conjunction with
correspond to the olefinic
‘groups in a chromene
tem. Two vinylic methyis at 8-03 and 8.37, to,
gether with dooblets
+58, suggest that the 2-hydroxy! o
=95
at 393 and
ak the Being ts
3 favort has oxidatively cycled with the dosbiy
lic methylexic of a ‘chain in the 3-position
isla cpeneoneel Mpube both tes eae
asin .
are split by the vinylic
a broad doublet at 458,
interaction of the proton
suppressed. "Confirmation
n ring system
that the hydrogen of
D
appear as
which
while the homoallylic
‘af cing D is sercally
of the presence of the
is provided by the face
the trimethyl ether
(solvent CDCL, see By appears as a doublet at
3-68 and shifts to 4-42 as
ponding hexahydro derivat
ison an asymmetric carbon and t
And 5°60, not disappearing in the
ve, bec
nated
quartet in the comres-
rause this hydrogen
the adjacent methy-
Product forms an
‘unit is in the form
hed to an aromatic
Is at 8-12 and 8-37
U = 7 cps) at 6-52
let signals at 2-83
1¢ hexahydro deri-
with two aromatic hydro
terophy'llin, all the flavones
wood of A. terophytieg
fave the unique feature of having the Bove oes
Genated at the 2’ and 4
posit
only, and ti
Sromatic hy of the Bering showed the
et
istic ABC pattem of the B-resoreylic acid
{pe. En all these compounds
fae eos
Wwone nucleus is cycloheterophyllin proved beyond
doubt that exctization of the Samet group 38 in
Teotrtecaniin 1s igen Place, the appearance
of te 6-Droton at 285 ana gic (ge? prance
upfield i thet Sapo eee
‘ached to the 3-position of the
hydroxy! in
roblers is to deci
the 3. or 6- or 3-position. Th
in the region of an aromatic proton tetaec two
Satbon atoms carrying ontgensubetiuentr seen?
repeat 8H oF 3H, butt can be assigeed cae
latter for two Teasons: (a) in cycloartocarpin and
Gegbig BH appeared ata Slightly higher and
(38), and (b) no coupling Y= 0607