Abstract:
Two fatty acid monoglycerides were isolated from the petroleum ether fraction of the stem and leaves of
Ligusticum chuanxiong by using MCI column, silica gel column, Sephadex LH-20 column and semi-preparative HPLC. Their structures were elucidated by 1D-NMR, 2D-NMR, HR-ESI-MS and optical rotation data. One of them is a new compound, named 14,15-dehydrocrepenynic acid monoglyceride (
1), the other was a known compound (
R)-
α-(7'
Z,10'
Z,13'
Z)-hexadecatrienoic acid monoglyceride (
2), both of which were isolated from
Ligusticum chuanxiong for the first time. The results of
in vitro antitumor activity assay showed that compounds
1 and
2 could inhibit the proliferation of MCF-7 with IC
50 values of 30.75 and 36.82 μmol·L
-1, respectively.