Abstract:
Twenty compounds were isolated from the ethyl acetate extract of
Smilax glabra by using various chromatographic techniques, including macroreticular resin, silica gel, Sephadex LH-20 and semi-preparative HPLC. Their structures were elucidated by physicochemical properties, MS and spectroscopic data. These compounds were elucidated as glabraside A (
1), glabraone A (
2), 5-hydroxy-3ʹ,4ʹ,7-trimethoxy-flavanone (
3), naringenin (
4), quercetin 7-
O-
α-
L-rhamnoside (
5), neoastilbin (
6), neoisoastilbin (
7), isoastilbin (
8), eriodictyol-7-
O-
β-
D-glucopyranoside (
9), naringenin-7-
O-α-
L-rhamnoside (
10), kaempferol 3-
O-4'''''-
O-acetyl-
α-
L-rhamnosyl-(1→6)-
β-
D-glucopyranosyl-(1→2)-
β-
D-glucopyranoside (
11), 5-hydroxymaltol (
12), 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl-1-
O-
β-
D-glucopyranoside (
13), 2-(3',4'-dihydroxyphenyl)-1,3-benzodioxole-5-aldehyde (
14), kompasinol A (
15), (+)-syringaresinol (
16),
cis-resveratrol (
17),
trans-resveratrol (
18), flufuran (
19) and 5-hydroxymethyl-furaldehyde (
20). Two new compounds (
1 and
2) showed inhibitory activity toward nitric oxide (NO) production, with IC
50 values of 56.8 and 29.5 μmol·L
-1, respectively.