ChemInform Abstract: 2‐Hydroxy‐1,2,3‐propanetricarboxylic Acid 2‐Methyl Ester, a New Natural Product from Rhus parviflora: A Simple Achiral Molecule Having Both Enantiotopic and Diastereotopic Hydrogens.

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Rhus parviflora and its biflavonoid constituent, rhusflavone, induce sleep through the positive allosteric modulation of GABAA-benzodiazepine receptors

“…The fruits of R. parviflora contain echinulin, trimethyl citrate and citric acid 2-methyl ester (Talapatra et al, 1993(Talapatra et al, , 2001. Recent investigation of Shrestha (2011) determined presence of a flavanone naringenin as major component together with flavonoids, biflavonoids, flavonoid glucosides, triterpenoid, sterols, lipids, lignan, lignan glycosides, sterols, phenolic acid and phenolic acid glycosides from RPME.…”