• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.386-389
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• 2004

Repeated column chromatography of the CHCI_3-soluble fraction of Zingiber zerumbet led to the isolation and identification of two aromatic compounds, p-hydroxybenzaldehyde (1) and vanillin (2), and six kaempferol derivatives, kaempferol-3,4',7-O-trimethylether (3), kaempferol-3-O-methylether (4), kaempferol-3,4'-O-dimethylether (5), 4'-O-acetylafzel in (6), kaempferol-3-O-(4-O-acetyl-$\alpha$-L-rhamnopyranoside)], 2',4'-O-diacetylafzelin (7), kaempferol-3-O-(2,4-O-diacetyl-$\alpha$-L-rhamnopyranoside)], and 3',4'-O-diacetylafzelin (8), kaempferol-3-O-(3,4-O-diacetyl-$\alpha$-L-rhamnopyranoside)]. The structures of 1-8 were identifed by analysis of spectroscopic data as well as by comparison with published values. This is the first report on the isolation of compounds 1-3 from this plant.

• Korean Journal of Pharmacognosy
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• v.33 no.4 s.131
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• pp.263-266
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• 2002

From the herbs of this plant, six compounds were isolated and their structures were characterized as dieicosyl ether (1), scopoletin (2), ${\alpha}-spinasterol-3-O-{\beta}-D-glucopyranoside$ (3), kaempferol (4), quercetin (5), and quercetin 7, 3', 4'-trimethylether-3-O-rutinoside (6) by chemical and spectroscopic evidences. These compounds were isolated for the first time from this plant and compound 6 was first isolated from nature.