Abstract:
Ten compounds were isolated from the 95% ethanol extract of the whole plant of
Gerbera piloselloides by silica gel column chromatography, MCI column chromatography and semi-preparative HPLC methods. Their structures were identified on the basis of physicochemical properties, spectral data (UV, IR, MS and NMR), circular dichroism (CD) spectra and single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis as 3′
R-gerpilosecoumarin A (
1a), 3′
S-gerpilosecoumarin A (
1b), gymnastone (
2), gerberinside (
3), divaricataester C (
4), luteolin (
5), caffeic acid methyl ester (
6), ethyl chlorogenate (
7), 6-(
β-
D-glucopyranosyloxy)-7-methoxy-5-benzoranpropanoic acid methyl ester (
8) and glucozaluzanin C (
9). Among them, new compounds
1a and
1b were new compounds and optical enantiomers, which were obtained by chiral resolution, and their absolute configurations were determined by quantum chemical calculation ECD. Compounds
1 and
1a/
1b significantly increased the survival of IEC-6 in rat small intestinal crypt epithelial cells after LPS injury.