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Chemical constituents of Lobelia chinensis
Shuang Yang1, Tao Shen1, Lijuan Zhao1
1Department of Natural Products Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, 44 Wenhuaxi Road, Jinan 250012, PR China.
Abstract:
Three new 2, 6-disubstituted piperidine alkaloids (1-3), one new polyacetylene (8), together with eight known compounds (4-7, 9-12) were isolated from the whole plants of Lobelia chinensis. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic data interpretation. The absolute configuration of 1 was established by a convenient Mosher ester procedure in which the sample was treated with MTPA chlorides in deuterated pyridine directly in NMR tube. Cytotoxicities of compounds 1-12 were tested against two human lung cancer cell lines, NCI-H292 and MSTO-211H. Compounds 8 and 9 exhibited moderate cytotoxic activity against the two cancer cell lines with the IC50 values in the range of 9.31-12.36 μM.
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