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Constituents from the testas of Castanea mollissima Blume with α-glucosidase inhibitory activity

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Pages 144-149 | Received 27 Oct 2009, Accepted 29 Oct 2009, Published online: 04 Feb 2010
 

Abstract

In the screening of biologically active constituents from medicinal plants, the 75% EtOH extract of the testas of Castanea mollissima Blume showed potent α-glucosidase inhibitory activity. By means of various chromatographic methods, the extract gave a new dammarane-type triterpene 1 along with 17 known compounds. The structure of 1 was determined to be 3β-acetoxy-20-oxo-21-nordammaran-23-oic acid by HRMS and NMR studies including 2D NMR experiments. The new compound and some known compounds showed potent α-glucosidase inhibitory activity with acarbose as a positive control.

Acknowledgements

We thank Mrs Wen Li, Ms Yi Sha, and Ms Weiming Cheng of the Analytical Centers of the Shenyang Pharmaceutical University for recording NMR spectra and HR-ESI-MS. This work was supported by the Scientific Project Research of Hebei Province in China.

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