Chemical fractionation of the EtOH extract of the roots of a traditional Chinese herb, Morinda officinalis, afforded an array of methyl 2-naphthoate derivatives (1-9) including four pairs of enantiomers (1-4), two pimarane diterpenes and two ursane triterpenoids. Among them, eight compounds (1a/1b-3a/3b, 11 and 13) were reported in the current work for the first time. The structures of the new compounds, including their absolute configurations, were defined by spectroscopic analyses in combination with quantum chemical electronic circular dichroism (ECD) and gauge-independent atomic orbital (GIAO) NMR calculations. All the isolates were evaluated for their inhibitory effect on nitric oxide (NO) production induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in murine RAW264.7 macrophage cells, and the enantiomers 1a and 3b exhibited moderate activity with IC values of 41.9 and 26.2 μM. Meanwhile, compound 3b also dose-dependently inhibited the secretion of two pro-inflammatory cytokines TNF-α and IL-6 in the same cell model.
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