Abstract:
The chemical constituents in dried roots of
Atractylodes macrocephala were investigated in this study. Through utilizing normal-phase silica gel and ODS column chromatography, TLC, and semi-preparative HPLC, 4 new sesquiterpenoids were purified from the ethyl acetate extract of
A. macrocephala. By various spectroscopic techniques, such as 1D and 2D NMR, HR-ESI-MS, IR, UV, and CD, their structures were identified as atractylmacron A (
1), 9
β-hydroxyasterolide (
2), atractylenolide H (
3), atractylenolide J (
4). Compound
1 possesses a rare 6/7 bicyclic skeleton.