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Planta Med 1987; 53(3): 266-268
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-962700
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Conversion of Artemisinin (Qinghaosu) to Iso-Artemisitene and to 9-Epi-Artemisinin1

Nancy Acton, Daniel L. Klayman
  • Division of Experimental Therapeutics, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. 20307-5100, U.S.A.
1 A preliminary report of this work was presented at the 191st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, April, 1986, New York, NY., Abstract # ORGN 256.
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1986

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24 January 2007 (online)

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Abstract

The antimalarial agent artemisinin has been converted to two new compounds, iso-artemisitene and 9-epi-artemisinin.

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