Four new acetylenes (1-4) and one new unsaturated to-hydroxy fatty acid (5), together with known analogues, were isolated from an aqueous extract of Codonopsis pilosula roots. Their structures were determined by spect...Four new acetylenes (1-4) and one new unsaturated to-hydroxy fatty acid (5), together with known analogues, were isolated from an aqueous extract of Codonopsis pilosula roots. Their structures were determined by spectroscopic and chemical methods. The new acetylenes are categorized as an unusual cyclotetradecatrienynone (1), tetradocenynetriol (2), and rare octenynoic acids (3 and 4), respectively, and 3 and 4 are possibly derived from oxidative metabolic degradation of 1 and/or 2. The absolute configuration of I. was assigned by comparison of the experimental circular dichroism (Cl)) spectrum with the calculated electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra of stereoisomers based on the quantum-mechanical time-dependent density functional theory, while the configuration of 2 was assigned by using modified Mosher's method based on the MPA determination rule of AoRs values for diols. (C) 2015 Chinese Pharmaceutical Association and Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Production and hosting by Elsevier By.展开更多
基金Financial support from the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China,China (NSFCNos.30825044 and 20932007)+1 种基金the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT,No.IRT1007)the National Science and Technology Project of China (Nos.2012ZX09301002-002 and 2011ZX09307-002-01)
文摘Four new acetylenes (1-4) and one new unsaturated to-hydroxy fatty acid (5), together with known analogues, were isolated from an aqueous extract of Codonopsis pilosula roots. Their structures were determined by spectroscopic and chemical methods. The new acetylenes are categorized as an unusual cyclotetradecatrienynone (1), tetradocenynetriol (2), and rare octenynoic acids (3 and 4), respectively, and 3 and 4 are possibly derived from oxidative metabolic degradation of 1 and/or 2. The absolute configuration of I. was assigned by comparison of the experimental circular dichroism (Cl)) spectrum with the calculated electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra of stereoisomers based on the quantum-mechanical time-dependent density functional theory, while the configuration of 2 was assigned by using modified Mosher's method based on the MPA determination rule of AoRs values for diols. (C) 2015 Chinese Pharmaceutical Association and Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Production and hosting by Elsevier By.
