P. Sharma’s scientific contributions

... The bark and leaves are extensively used in Indian traditional medicine to address ailments such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, immune disorders, sexual disorders, and gynaecological issues (Ben Cao 1999). It has a rich spectrum of bioactive compounds such as triterpenoids (De Leo et al. 2018), sesquiterpenoids (Nagasampagi et al. 1968), cedrelone (Neto et al. 1995), polyynes (Wang et al. 2020), limonoids (Jiang et al. 2012), siderin, diterpenoids, sterols, phenols (Kakumu et al. 2014), flavonoids (Shen et al. 2019), and phenylpropanoids (Sharma et al. 2009). This species is mostly important for bioactive limonoids such as toonaciliatone A (Yang et al. 2015), toonanoronoid C , toonanoronoid D (Zhu, Wan, Peng, Shi, Li, Chen, Zhou and Qiu 2019), toonaciliatine A (Ning et al. 2010), Toonaciliatin M (Chen et al. 2009), Toonaciliatavarins (Zhang et al. 2012) and toonaciliatins N − P (Zhang et al. 2011) and triterpenoids like toonamicrocarpavarin (Zhang et al. 2021), Toonaciliatin-K (Gou et al. 2017) etc. ...

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Discovery of two new tirucallane-type triterpenes anomers from Toona ciliata