Abstract
The chemical constituents from 70% ethanol petroleum ether and n-butanol extractions of Callerya nitita Benth.var.hirsutissima.Z.Wei. were separated by preparative high-performance liquid chromatographic techniques, including repeated column chromatography over macroporous adsorption resin, silica gel, ODS, Sephadex LH-20. The structures of the compounds were identified by their physicochemical properties, spectral data, and mass spectrometry data, in comparison with literature. In our research, one triterpenoids, taraxerone (1), and twenty flavonoids, including genistein-4′-O-β-glucoside (2), 5-hydroxy-4′-methoxyisoflavone-7-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→6)-β-D-glucopyranoside (3), biochanin A 7-O-β-D-apiofuranosyl-(1→5)-β-D-apiofuranosyl- (1→6)-β-D-glucopyranoside (4), formononetin-7-O-β-D-galactopyranoside (5), 5,7-dihydroxy-3′,4′-dimethoxyisoflavone (6), biochanin A-7-O-β-D-apiofuranosyl-(1→2)-β-D-glucopyranoside (7), 5, 7-dihydroxyisoflavone-4′-O-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1→2)-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (8), formononetin-7-O-D-apio-β-D-furanosyl(l→2)-β-D-glucopyranoside (9), 4′-hydroxy-3′-methoxyisoflavone-7-O-β-D-apiofuranosyl-(1→6)-β-D-glucopyranoside (10), prunetin (11), prunetin 4′-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (12), pratensein7-O-β-D-glucoside (13), 8-methoxyisoformononetin (14), genistein (15), 3′-hydroxybiochanin A (16), biochanin A (17), 5,7-dihydroxy-3′,5′-dimethoxyisoflavone (18), ononin (19), isoformononetin (20), 5,7,3′,4′-tetrahydroxyflavone (21) were isolated from the two extract parts.Compounds 1-10, 12-14, 16-18, 20 were obtained from this plant, and it is the first time to investigate the plant for the first time.