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Phytochemical and chemotaxonomic studies on the Trillium tschonoskii Maxim.

Ting Yan, Manhuayun Zhai, Jingming Jia*   

  1. School of Traditional Chinese Materia Medica, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China
  • Received:2017-05-12 Revised:2017-07-24 Online:2018-04-20 Published:2017-07-24
  • Contact: School of Traditional Chinese Materia Medica, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China; E-mail: jiajingming@163.com; Tel.: +86-24-23986501; Fax: +86-24-23986501.

Abstract: Chemical investigation of the ethanol extract from the rhizomes of Trillium tschonoskii Maxim, led to the isolation of sixteen compounds (1-16), including thirteen steroidal saponins (1-13), one sterone (14), one alkaloid (15) and one oligosaccharide ester (16). Among them, compounds 5, 10 and 11 are reported here for the first time from T. tschonoskii, and compounds 1, 7-9 and 15 are firstly isolated from Trillium genus. The research data indicate that the existence of steroidal saponins might be regarded as valuable and useful chemotaxonomic markers for further classification and subdivision of the genus of Trillium.

Key words: Trillium tschonoskii Maxim., steroidal saponins, chemical constituents, chemotaxonomic importance