One new triterpenoid saponin and two lupane-derived triterpenes were isolated from Acanthopanax sessiliflorus fruits. The structures of the two new compounds were elucidated as 3- O-[(alpha- L-arabinopyranosyl)-(1 --> 2)]-[ beta- D-glucuronopyranosyl-6- O-methyl ester]-olean-12-ene-28-olic acid (1) and (1 R,11 alpha,22 alpha)-1,4-epoxy-11,22-hydroxy-3,4-secolupane-20(30)-ene-3,28-dioic acid (3) on the basis of spectral analysis, including MS, (1)H-NMR, (13)C-NMR, DEPT, HMBC, HMQC and NOESY. The structure of the other new natural product was elucidated as (1 R,11 alpha)-1,4-epoxy-11-hydroxy-3,4-secolupane-20(30)-ene-3,28-dioic acid (2). All these compounds showed antiplatelet aggregation activity on ADP-induced platelet aggregation.

A simple and accurate liquid chromatographic method was developed for the simultaneous determination of six constituents in the fruit of Acanthopanax sessiliflorus. The conditions of sample extraction were optimised by using orthogonal design. The method provided good accuracy with recoveries in the range of 95.6-101.6% and good precision with RSD values less than 3.0%, which has been successfully applied to the quantitative determination of the six compounds in the fruit of A. sessiliflorus from two maturation periods.