The structure of a novel compound from Adansonia digitata has been elucidated, and its 1 H and 13 C NMR spectra have been assigned employing a variety of one-dimensional and two-dimensional NMR techniques without degradative chemistry. The Advanced Chemistry Development ACD/Structure Elucidator software was important for determining part of this structure that contained a fused bicyclic system with very few hydrogen atoms, which in turn, exhibited essentially no discriminating HMBC connectivities throughout that portion of the molecule. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Keywords: 13C NMR; 1D NMR; 1H NMR; 2D NMR; Adansonia digitata; NMR; baobab; chemical shift assignments; computer-assisted structure elucidation (CASE); natural products.
Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.