Two unusual naphthoquinones, named here as pleonotoquinones A () and B (), were isolated along with two known anthraquinones ( and ) via chromatographic separations of an ethyl acetate extract of the roots of . Compounds and are the first examples of quinones bearing a 2-methyloxepine moiety. The compounds were isolated with the aid of mass spectrometry and molecular networking, and their structures were resolved using 1D and 2D NMR and HRESIMS data.
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