Abstract:
Eleven compounds were isolated from the ethyl acetate fraction of the 95% aqueous ethanol extract of the roots of
Sophora tonkinensis by silica gel, ODS, Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography, and
semi-preparative RP-HPLC. Their structures were identified as 7-hydroxy-8-isopentenylchromone (
1), furo2, 3-
f-1, 3-benzodioxole-7-carboxylic acid (
2), 6-3-(2′, 4′-dihydroxyphenyl)acryloyl-7-hydroxy-2, 2-dimethyl-8-(3-methyl-2-butenyl)-2
H-benzopyran (
3), flemichapparin B (
4), tectorigenin (
5), genistein (
6), 6-hydroxy-1, 3-benzodioxole-5-carboxylic acid (
7), vanillic acid (
8), protocatechuic acid (
9), 2, 4-dihydroxybenzoic acid (
10), and
p-hydroxybenzoic acid (
11) through extensive spectroscopic data (IR, UV, HR-ESI-MS, and NMR spectra). Among them, compounds
1 and
2 were new compounds. In addition, compound
3 showed significant
α-glucosidase and protein tyrosine phosphatase-1B (PTP1B) inhibitory activities with IC
50 values of 5.595 and 0.320 μmol·L
-1, respectively.