Synthesis of Cytotoxic Sinapyl Alcohol Derivatives from Ligularia nelumbifolia

• Yu ZHAO ^1,2, ,
• Wei LU ^3, ,
• Xiao Jiang HAO ^2, ,
• Jun Chao CAI ^3, ,
• Hong YU ^4, ,
• Thierry SEVENET ^5, ,
• FranÇise GUÉITTE ^5,

• 1.

  Department of Natural Drug Research, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310031;

• 2.

  Laboratory of Phytochemistry, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204;

• 3.

  Shanghai Institute of Material Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031;

• 4.

  Inmore Laboratory of Biotechnology, Kunming 650011;

• 5.

  Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, CNRS, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

• Received Date: 03 July 2001
  
• Fund Project:

  This work is financially supported by the Life Science Special Fund of Chinese Academy of Sciences Supported by the Ministry of Finance (STZ-00-24), the Yunnan Province Foundation of Applied and Basic Research (2000C0072M), the Foundation for Visiting Professor (Y. Z.) from the State Key Laboratory of New Drug Research at SIMM, CAS, the grant from Dean of KIB, CAS, and EGIDE foundation (France).