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Sesquiterpenes from Chloranthus japonicus
journal contribution
posted on 2011-01-28, 00:00 authored by Qiu-Hong Wang, Hai-Xue Kuang, Bing-You Yang, Yong-Gang Xia, Jun-Song Wang, Ling-Yi KongEight new sesquiterpene lactones (chlorajapolides A−E, 1−5, chlorajaposide, 6, chlorajaponol, 7, and chloraeudolide, 8) were isolated from an ethyl acetate-soluble partition of the ethanol extract of the whole plants of Chloranthus japonicus. The structures and relative configurations of 1−8 were established on the basis of spectroscopic data analysis. All isolates obtained were evaluated for their cytotoxic activity against a small panel of cancer cell lines.