Studies on the chemical constituents in herb of Ranunculus japonicus.

Author: Wei ZHENG ¹ ; Chang-xin ZHOU ; Shui-li ZHANG ; Lin-jia WENG ; Yu ZHAO
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1. Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Drug Research, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangdzhou 310031, China.
Publication Type:Journal Article
MeSH: Coumarins; chemistry; isolation & purification; Flavonoids; chemistry; isolation & purification; Plants, Medicinal; chemistry; Ranunculus; chemistry
From: China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 2006;31(11):892-894
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract:
OBJECTIVETo isolate and determine the chemical constituents from Ranunculus japonicus.
METHODCompounds were isolated by column chromatography, and identified by MS, NMR data.
RESULTNine compounds were obtained andelucidated as scoparone (1), tricin (2), protocatechuic acid (3), luteolin (4), anemonin (5), scopoletin (6), 5-hydroxy-6, 7-dimethoxyflavone (7), 5-hydroxy-7, 8-dimethoxyflavone (8), ternatolide (9), respectively.
CONCLUSIONCompounds 1-9 were isolated from R. japonicus for the first time while compounds 7, 8 were separated from Ranunculus genus first time.