What's the difference between jalapin and scammonin?

Jalapin


Definition:

  • (n.) A glucoside found in the stems of the jalap plant and scammony. It is a strong purgative.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ether-soluble resin glycoside ('jalapin') fraction obtained from scammony roots, on alkaline hydrolysis, gave a glycosidic acid, scammonic acid A, together with isobutyric, 2S-methylbutyric and tiglic acids.
  • (2) Five new ether-soluble resin glycosides (jalapins), simonins I-V, have been isolated from the roots of Ipomoea batatas and characterized on the bases of chemical and spectral data.

Scammonin


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition to (2S)-2-methylbutyric acid and tiglic acid, they are composed, respectively, of orizabic acid A and a new glycosidic acid named scammonic acid B, with similar macrocyclic ester structures to those of the scammonic acid A-based scammonins I-VI.
  • (2) In addition, two kinds of resin glycosides, named scammonin I and II, were isolated and characterized, respectively, as (11S)-hydroxyhexadecanoic acid, 11-[( O-6-deoxy-4-O-(2(E)-methyl-1-oxo-2- butenyl)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----4)-O-6-deoxy-2-O-(2-methyl-1-oxobut yl)- alpha-L-mannopyranosyl-(1----2)-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----2)-6-deoxy -beta- D-glucopyranosyl]oxy)-, intramol.
  • (3) Isolation of genuine scammonins III-V, which were previously obtained as peracetates, is also described.
  • (4) Two minor ether-soluble resin glycosides, scammonins VII and VIII, were isolated from Radix Scammoniae, the roots of Convolvulus scammonia.

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