Abstract:
By means of several chromatographic techniques, such as silica gel, Sephadex LH-20 and semi-preparative high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), two caryolane-type sesquiterpenoids were isolated from the petroleum ether soluble fraction of the aerial parts of
Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth., and their structures were identified as caryolanol A (
1) and 1
α-ethoxy-9
α-hydroxy-senecrassane (
2) by various spectroscopic methods, including NMR and HR-ESI-MS. Compounds
1 and
2 were a pair of C
5 epimers, and compound
1 was a new compound. In addition, the anti-influenza virus activity of compounds
1 and
2 was evaluated.