Two new phenolic glycosides from the fruits of Illicium verum

Abstract

Two new phenolic glycosides (1–2) and eleven known compounds (3–13) were isolated from the fruits of Illicium verum Hook.f. using silica-gel column and preparative middle pressure liquid chromatography (MPLC). The structures of the compounds were elucidated by NMR spectroscopic data. Among them, compounds 3, 5, and 10 were isolated from the family Magnoliaceae for the first time. Additionally, all the compounds were evaluated for their anti-complementary activities against the classical pathway (CP) and the alternative pathway (AP).

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KEYWORDS:

• Illicium verum
• Magnoliaceae
• phenolic glycoside
• anti-complementary activity

Acknowledgments

We thank Renee Mosi, PhD, from Liwen Bianji, Edanz Editing China (www.Liwenbianji.cn/ac), for editing the English text of a draft of this manuscript.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Funding

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81660699 and 81760627). This research was also supported by the Jilin Provincial Education Department (JJKH20200534KJ) and Administration of traditional Chinese Medicine of Jilin Province (No. 2020140).