STUDIES ON THE CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF CHRYS SANTHEMUM INDICUM L.

Six crystalline compounds have been isolated from the flowers of Chrysanthemum indicum L.. Five of them were identified as known compounds: daucosterol, cumanbrin-A, acacetin, glyceryl-1-monobehenate and palmitic acid. The sixth one is a new compound and is named chrysanthemol. The structure of chrysanthemol was elucidated as I on the basis of spectral (IR, MS, ¹HNMR and ¹³CNMR) and chemical evidences. Chrysanthemol showed strong antiinflammatory activity in mice.