Abstract:
From an ethanol extract of
Euphorbia micractina roots, sixteen terpenoids were isolated by a combination of various chromatographic techniques, including column chromatography over macroporous resin, silica gel, and Sephadex LH-20 and reversed-phase HPLC. Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic data analysis as loliolide myristate (
1), 24-methylenetirucall-8-en-3
β,11
α-diol-7-one (
2), loliolide (
3), 3
β-hydroxy-5
α,6
α-epoxy-7-megastigmen-9-one (
4), jolkinol A (
5), jolkinol D (
6), latilagascene F (
7), helioscopinolide A (
8), helioscopinolide B (
9), 3-
O-acetylhelioscopinolide B (
10), helioscopinolide D (
11), helioscopinolide E (
12), (+)-11-acetoxyatis-16-en-3,14-dione (
13), erythrodiol (
14), uvaol (
15) and betulin (
16). All of the compounds were obtained from this plant for the first time, in which
1 and
2 are new compounds.