Anti-inflammatory 5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-2-(2-phenylethyl)chromones from agarwood of Aquilaria sinensis.

Bioorg Chem

Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Resources Conservation and Development of Southern Medicine & Key Laboratory of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Agarwood Sustainable Utilization, Hainan Branch of the Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Haikou 570311, PR China; Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resources Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education & National Engineering Laboratory for Breeding of Endangered Medicinal Materials, Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100193, PR China. Electronic address:

Published: June 2020

Four new 5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-2-(2-phenylethyl)chromones, aqulisinone A (1), (5S, 6R,7S,8S)-8-chloro-5,6,7-trihydroxy-2-[2-(4'-methoxyphenylethyl)]-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrochromone (2), (5S,6R,7S,8S)-8-chloro-5,6,7-trihydroxy-2-(2-phenylethyl)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrochromone (3), (5S*,6R*,7R*,8S*)-8-chloro-5-ethoxy-6,7-dihydroxy-2-[2-(3'-hydroxy-4'-methoxy-phenylethyl)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrochromone (4), and seven known analogues (5-11) were isolated from agarwood produced of Aquilaria sinensis. Among the new compounds, 4 is an artifact. The structures were elucidated using spectroscopic methods and by comparison with published NMR spectroscopic data. The absolute configurations of 1-3 were defined based on single-crystal X-ray diffraction and electronic circular dichroism (ECD) data. Compound 1 features a (5,5'')-carbon-carbon bond linkage connecting two 2-(2-phenylethyl)chromone monomeric units. All the new compounds were evaluated for their anti-inflammatory activities by inhibiting the lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced nitric oxide (NO) release in RAW264.7 cells, 2 with an IC value of 3.46 μM.

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