Chemical constituents from root of Psammosilene tunicoides / 中国中药杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate the chemical constituents from the root of Psammosilene tunicoides.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>Column chromatographic methods were used to isolate the chemical constituents of this plant. ESI-MS, EI-MS and NMR methods were employed for their structural elucidation.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>Seven compounds were isolated and identified as goyaprosaponin (1), Soya-cerebroside (2), tectoridin (3), alpha-spinasterol (4), tetracosanoic acid (5), beta-sitosterol (6), daucosterol (7) respectively.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Compounds 2-7 were obtained from genus Psammosilene for the first time.</p>