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[Studies on constituents from root and stem of Ervatamia hainanensis]
Jian-Peng Huang1, Yang-Min Ma, Jian-Shuang Jiang
1College of Lfe Science, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China.
Objective:
To investigate the constituents of Ervatamia hainanensis systematically.
Method:
Various chromatographic techniques were applied to isolate and purify the constituents of this plant. The structures were elucidated by spectroscopic analysis.
Result:
Eight compounds were obtained, which were identified as alpha-amyrin acetate (1), 11-oxo-alpha-amyrin acetate (2), beta-sitosterol (3), cycloart-23-ene-3beta, 25-diol(4), cycloart-25-ene-3beta, 24-diol (5), 5alpha, 8alpha-epidioxyergosta-6, 22-dien-3beta-ol (6), ibogamin-3-one (7), beta-daucosterol (8).
Conclusion:
Compounds 1, 2, 4- 7 were isolated from this plant for the first time.
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