• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.151-154
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• 2000

Two sesquiterpene endoperoxides, 1S, 4R, 6R-1, 4-endoperoxy-bisabola-2, 10-diene (1), 1R, 4S, 6R-1, 4-endoperoxy-bisabola-2, 10-diene (II), and a sesquiterpene hydroperoxide, 1$\beta$-hydroperoxygermacra-4 (15), 5, 10 (14)-triene (III) were isolated from the aerial parts of Artemisia stolonifera (Compositae). Their chemical structures were assigned by spectral evidences. Compounds I and II exhibited cytotoxicity against five human tumor cell lines with their $\ED_50 values ranging from 0.20 to 5.43 ${\mu}g/m\ell$ and from <0.1 to 0.87 ${\mu}g/m\ell$, respectively.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.203-208
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• 2006

The chromatographic separation of the MeOH extract of the roots of Ainsliaea acerifolia (Compositae) led to the isolation of six known terpenes and two known lignans. Their structures were identified by spectroscopic methods as mokko lactone (1), betulonic acid (2), betulinic acid (3), zaluzanin C (4), $1{\beta}-hydroperoxygermacra-4(15)$, 5, 10(14)-triene (5), pluviatilol (6), (+)-syringaresinol (7), and glucozaluzanin C (8). Compounds $1{\sim}4$ and 8 showed non-specific significant cytotoxicity against five human tumor cell lines with $ED_{50}$ values ranging from $0.36{\sim}5.54{\mu}g/mL$.