Muhammad Safder

In the title compound, C₁₉H₂₁N₃O₂S, the dihedral angle between the aromatic rings is 6.7 (2)° and the C=N—N=C torsion angle is 178.0 (2)°. The conformation of the thiazine ring is an envelope, with the S atom displaced by 0.802 (2) Å from the mean plane of the other five atoms (r.m.s. deviation = 0.022 Å). In the crystal, molecules are linked by C—H...O interactions, generatingC(5) chains propagating in [010]. A weak C—H...π interaction is also observed.

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(15)H(18)BrN(3)O(2)S, contains two independent mol-ecules in both of which the (thia-zine)C=N-N double bond exhibits an E conformation. The cyclo-hexyl rings adopt chair conformations while the thia-zine rings are in sofa conformations. The mean planes of these rings are oriented at dihedral angles of 64.43 (13) and 28.6 (2)° in the two independent mol-ecules while the aromatic and thia-zine rings are twisted by dihedral angles of 8.73 (8) and 13.07 (2)°, respectively. In the crystal, C-H⋯O and C-H⋯Br inter-actions connect mol-ecules into chains propagating along the a axis.

Spiraeamide (1), a new sphingolipid, has been isolated from the ethyl acetate-soluble fraction of the methanolic extract of the whole plant of Spiraea brahuica, along with marrubiin (2), 19-acetylmarrubenol (3), and 6-acetylmarruenol (4). Their structures were elucidated by ¹H and ¹³C NMR spectra, and COSY, NOESY, HMQC, HMBC, EI-MS, and FAB-MS experiments.

In the title compound, C(20)H(13)BrClNO, the azomethine double bond [C=N = 1.246 (4) Å] adopts an E conformation. The bromo- and chlorophenyl rings are inclined to one another by 13.70 (11)°, and form dihedral angles of 76.68 (10) and 74.24 (7)°, respectively, with the phenyl ring. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked by C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds to form double stranded chains propagating along the b-axis direction.

Asphorins A and B (1 and 2, resp.), two new triterpene glycosides, have been isolated along with a new chromone, 3, from the AcOEt subfraction of the MeOH extract of the whole plant of Asphodelus tenuifolius. Their structures were elucidated by spectral analysis including 2D‐NMR spectroscopic experiments.

Onopordum is an interesting genus belonging to the tribe Cardueae (Asteraceae family), and the species of this genus are used as food and in the popular medicine of several countries. The present paper reviews all the metabolites present in all the species of this genus, reported up to 2009, and several chemotaxonomic consideration have been made. Furthermore, the occurrence in other genus, the spectral data, the synthetic approaches, the chemical modifications and the biological properties of the sesquiterpenes of genus Onopordum have been reviewed.