CHARACTERIZATION OF 3 LABDANE DITERPENES FROM AFRAMOMUM-ALBOVIOLACEUM

Two labdane diterpenes were isolated from the seeds and the rhizomes of Aframomum alboviolaceum (Ridley) K. Schum (Zingiberaceae) and identified by GC-MS, H-1-, and C-13-NMR as (E)-labda-8(17),12-diene-15,16-dial (1) and (E)-8beta,17-epoxylabd-12-ene-15,16-dial (2). A third minor compound could be the methyl (E)-14xi,15-epoxylabd-8(17), 12-dien-16-oate. The simultaneous occurrence of these three molecules has been mentioned only in one other species of the same genus, Aframomum daniellii (1).