Abstract:
Ten flavonoids were isolated from the 95% ethanol extract of the seeds of
Alpinia galanga Willd. with a combination of various chromatographic techniques, including silica gel, Sephadex LH-20 and preparative HPLC. On the basis of spectroscopic data analysis, they were elucidated as (2
R, 3
S)-pinobaksin-3-cinnamate (
1), (2
R, 3
R)-pinobaksin-3-cinnamate (
2), pinocembrin (
3), pinobaksin (
4), 3-
O-acetylpinobaksin (
5), galangin (
6), galangin-3-methylether (
7), kumatakenin (
8), 3-methylkaempferol (
9) and (2
R, 3
R)-3, 5-dihydroxy- 7-methoxyflavanone (
10). Among them, compound
1 is a new compound, compounds
2,
5 and
10 were isolated from the genus
Alpinia for the first time, and others were isolated from this plant for the first time.