A New Bisabolene from Stevia tomentosa

Abstract

The new sesquiterpene (1 R,2 R,3 R,6 R,7 S)-1-acetoxy-2,3-dmydroxy-2,3-dihydrobisabolene (3) together with ten known terpenes and three known flavonoids were isolated from the aerial parts and from the roots of Stevia tomentosa. The structure of 3 follows from spectral studies, the relative chirality at C-3 follows from 1H NMR coupling constants comparison with the corresponding calculated values obtained by applying a generalized Karplus-type relationship to the dihedral angles of model compounds, and the absolute configuration is assumed in analogy to known (2 R,3 R,6 R,7 S)-2,3-epoxy-2,3-dihydrobisabolen-1-one (2).