Studies on chemical constituents in fruit of Gardenia jasminoides / 中国中药杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study the chemical constituents in Gardenia jasminoides.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>The constituents were isolated by column chromatography on silica gel and ODS, and identified by NMR, MS spectroscopic methods.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>Nine compounds, imperatorin (1), isoimperatorin (2), crocetin (3), 5-hydroxy-7, 3', 4', 5'-tetrainethoxyflavone (4), 2-methyl-3, 5-dihydroxychromone (5), sudan III (6), geniposide (7), crocin (8), crocin-3 (9) were isolated and identified.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Compounds 1-6 were isolated from this plant for the first time.</p>