Two new lactones with mosquito larvicidal activity from three Hortonia species.

R Ratnayake, V Karunaratne, B M Ratnayake Bandara, V Kumar, J K MacLeod, P Simmonds

Department of Chemistry, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Journal of natural products 2001 Mar

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The structures of the butenolides 1 and 2, isolated from the endemic plants Hortonia floribunda, H. angustifolia, and H. ovalifolia, collected in Sri Lanka, have been elucidated by spectroscopic analysis. These compounds exhibited potent mosquito larvicidal activity against the second instar larvae of Aedes aegypti.

Citation

R Ratnayake, V Karunaratne, B M Ratnayake Bandara, V Kumar, J K MacLeod, P Simmonds. Two new lactones with mosquito larvicidal activity from three Hortonia species. Journal of natural products. 2001 Mar;64(3):376-8