Abstract:
One undescribed and two known furocoumarins were isolated from the stems of the
Clausena lansium through a series of isolation and purification approaches including HPD-100 macroporous resin column, silica gel, reverse phase C
18 and so on. Their structures were determined to be 8-(2
S,3
S,6
E)-2,3-epoxy-3,7-dimethyl-oct-6-enyloxy psoralen (
1), 8-(7',8'-epoxygeranyloxy) psoralen (
2) and 8-(2
E)-6-oxo-3,7-dimethyloct-2-enyloxy psoralen (
3) by spectroscopic methods. Compound
1 is a new furocoumarin. Compound
2 showed cytotoxicity to H460 (IC
50=43.94 μmol·L
-1) and compound
3 showed cytotoxicity to HeLa (33.76 μmol·L
-1) through the cytotoxic tests against five human cancer cell lines (H460, H7402, HCT-8, HeLa and MCF-7) for all compounds.