A New Benzophenone from Lindera fruticosa

摘要

Lindera fruticosa is a perennial shrub widely distributed in China,Nepal,India and Ethiopia.The root is a traditional anti-inflammatory medicine folk remedy,but few studies on its active components has been reported.The potential therefore exists for new and valuable compounds to be discovered from L.fruticosa.This paper describes the isolation and structural determination of a new benzophenone from the L.fruticosa.Although this compound was reported by Kang et al.as a new compound from Securidaca inappendiculata,the authors of this paper suggest that the identification of the compound carried out by Kang et al.was incorrect.