STUDIES ON CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS FROM THE ROOT OF CORIARIA NEPALENSIS WALL(CORIARIA SINICA MAXIM)

The root of Coriaria nepalensis Wall (Coriaria sinica Maxim) is a Chinese herbal medicine and has been used to treat numbness, toothache due to wind and heat, phlegm-retention syndrom, fraumatic injury and acute conjunctivitis. Nine compounds were isolated from the root of Coriaria nepalensis Wall and they were identified as braylin (I), norbraylin (II), dihydrocoriamyrtin (III), coriamyrtin (IV), tutin (V), coriatin (VI), apotutin (VII), hydroxycoriatin (VIII) and gallic acid (IX) on the basis of their physicochemical properties and IR, UV, MS, ¹HNMR, ¹³CNMR data. I, II were isolated from the title plant for the first time; III was obtained from plant origin for the first time, and VII, VIII were new compounds.