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ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION
Cten'bcm men'b'b1,mcU<.rm "LC-MS a.u.n '£-'1-=NM"R. 'rraa.luona\ 'trea'tmen't 01 a.ysen'tery ana. tertian
malaria (Mitsunaga,K.,etal., 1994). From the roots,
Kata Kunci: E. longifolia, isolasi, spektroskopi, 9-
metoksisantin-6-one several c lasses of compounds have been
identified and they included quassinoids, canthin- silica gel using gradient elution (hexane-ethyl
6-one alkaloids, -carboline alkaloids, tirucallane- acetate), resulted 9 fractions. Fraction 5 gave pure
type triterpenes, squalene derivatives, and compound 1 as yellow crystal after re-
crystallization.
biphenylneolignans. Some of these constituents
were shown to possess cytotoxic, antimalarial,
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
antiulcer, antipyretic, and plant growth inhibition
activities (Kuo, P.c., et al., 2003). In our continuing The dried roots of E. longifolia were
search for marker compounds from the root macerated with n-hexane, and the residues from
extract of E. longifolia, the chemical constituents of this extraction were macerated with methanol. The
E. longifolia have been investigated. In this paper, product of methanol extract was fractionated by
we report the isolation 9-metoxyccanthin-6-one column chromatography on silica gel using
gradient elution (hexane-ethyl acetate) to give a
from methanol extract of the root of this species.
number of fractions that contained a major
This paper describes the isolation and structural
compound as yellow crystal. This extraction had
elucidation of these compounds. been resulted 9 fractions (Figure 1), which fraction 5
was re-crystallized to give pure compound 1.
EXPERIMENTAL
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'H- and '3C-NMR spectra were recorded with Figure 1. Thin Layer ChromatograpyChromatogram
from methanol extractof E. longifoliaroots
JEOL JNM ECA-500 spectrometer, operating at
500 MHz (H-) and 125.76 MHz C3C-), using TMS
(Tetra Methyl Silane) as an internal standard. MS Compound 1was obtained as yellow crystal
were obtained with Mariner Biospectrometry and determined as C,sH,oN202 by LC-MS
spectrometer using System ESI (Electrospray spectrometry which [Mf ion at 250,2989(Figure 2).
Ionisation) and positive ion mode. Column
chromatography was carried out using Merck
Silica gel 60 (.70- 230 mesh ASTM), and TLC (Thin ....,5plc15f7:6Of(TIl2.2T:22..92)~~,.{T·.un:ZU:2I ASq!IP*25U,2ONJ
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Figure 3. 1H_ (a), 13CNMR (b), HMQC (c), and HMBC (d) spectra from methanol extract of E. longifolia roots.