I= ISOLATION AND BIOTRANSFORMATION OF SOME BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS FROM MEDICAL PLANTS
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Title of Thesis
ISOLATION AND BIOTRANSFORMATION OF SOME BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS FROM MEDICAL PLANTS
Author(s)
Humaira Yaseen Gondal
Institute/University/Department Details
University of Karachi/ H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry
Session
2004
Subject
Chemistry
Number of Pages
161
Keywords (Extracted from title, table of contents and abstract of thesis)
bioactive compounds, medical plants, suregada multiflora, verbascum sinaiticum, microbial transformations, anticancer assay

Abstract
The work presented in this Ph.D dissertation is divided in three parts. Part-A deals with phytochemical studies on suregada multiflora, a medicinal plant of Bangladesh, Part-B deals with photochemical studies on Verbascum sinaiticum, while microbial transformations of some natural compounds are discussed in Part-C.

Part-A, This part of thesis deals with photochemical investigation on the leaf extracts of Suregada multiflora. The crude extract of Suregada multiflora was found to possess selective and significant cytotoxicity against a 60-cell line tumor panels at the isolation of eleven different tetracyclic diterpene lactores 1-11, which are the members of a rare class of abiatene diterpene lactrones along with a flavonoid glycoside and a lignan Compounds 7-11 (Gelomulide F, D, E, A and G), isolated from suregada multiflora were evaluated in the primary anticancer assay of 3-cell lines at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Bethesda, USA. Out of them compound 9 (Gelomulide E) showed promising activity against the NCI-H460 (Lung) cell line, with a growth inhibition of over 85% at concentration of 5X10-5M

New diterpene lactones from suregada multiflora Six new compounds (1-6) have been isolated from the Suregada multiflora. Among them compounds 1 and 2 contain an epoxy linkage between C-8 and C-14, whereas compounds 3-5 were identified as 8-14-dihydroxy analogues of diterpene lactones. Compound 6 contains one additional epoxy ring between C-11 and C-12
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S. No. Chapter Title of the Chapters Page Size (KB)
1 0 Contents
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2 1 General Introduction 1
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  1.1 Natural Products In Drug Discovery 1
  1.2 Natural Products In Cancer Chemotherapy 3
3 2 Phytochemical Studies On Suregada Multiflora 5
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  2.1 Introduction 6
  2.2 Results And Discussion 20
  2.3 Experimental 75
4 3 Phytochemical Studies On Verbascum Sinaiticum 94
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  3.1 Introduction 95
  3.2 Results And Discussion 99
  3.3 Experimental 106
5 4 Biotransformational Studies 110
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  4.1 Introduction 111
  4.2 Results And Discussion 118
  4.3 Experimental 140
6 5 References 149
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7 6 Publication resulting from present work 163
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