文摘
The Zimbabwean medicinal plant Monadenium lugardae was evaluated as a potential source of new anticancer constituents. Four new tetracyclic triterpene (1–4) were isolated, accompanied by four previously known triterpenes (5–8). Against a panel of human tumor cell lines, lugardstatins 1 (1) and 2 (2) had good cancer cell growth inhibitory activity. All of the triterpene structures (1–8) were established by 1D and 2D NMR spectrometric and HR mass spectrometric analysis.