New coumarin from Skimmia anquetelia

Department of Chemistry, HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar (Garhwal)-246 174, Uttarakhand, India E-mail : devendra_negi@yahoo.com Fax : 91-1346-252174 Department of Pharmacognosy, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan Manuscript received 20 September 2007, revised 10 June 2008, accepted 8 July 2008 A new coumarin isolated from leaves of Skimmia anquetelia has been identified as 6-methoxy-7-(2'-hydroxy- 3' -methyl-butyl) coumarin