Enantiomeric Sesquiterpene Lactones from Senecio tsoongianus

• Yu ZHAO ^1,2, ,
• Peng WANG ^2, ,
• Xiao Jiang HAO ^2, ,
• Simon PARSONS ^3, ,
• David W. H. RANKIN ^3, ,
• Hao SHI ^1, ,
• Hong YU ^4, ,
• Thierry SEVÉNET ^5, ,
• Françoise GUÉRITTE ^5,

• 1.

  Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine and 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.

  Department of Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JJ, U.K.;

• 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: 15 November 2001
  
• Fund Project:

  This work is financially supported in part by the Life Sciences Special Fund of Chinese Academy of Sciences Supported by the Ministry of Finance (STZ-00-24), the Yunnan Province Foundation of Applied Basic Research (2000C0072M), the Chine-France PRA (grant No.PRA BT01-02), and EGIDE Foundation (France). Y. Zhao also would like to express his thankfulness to Chinese Ministry of Education and Mr. Ka-Ching Lee for "Cheung Kong Scholar Chief Professorship" at Zhejiang University.