“…The HMBC correlations (Figure 2) of 1-OH (δ 13.32) with C-1 (δ 158.6), C-2 (δ 109.1) and C-9a (δ 109.2); 3-OH (δ 6.48) with C-2 (δ 109.1), C-3 (δ 160.6) and C-4 (δ 105.4); 6-OH (δ 6.42) with C-5 (δ 133.7), C-6 (δ 149.6) and C-7 (δ 112.2); and 5-OMe (δ 4.12) with C-5 (δ 133.7) also supported the 1,3,5,6-tetraoxygenated xanthone core structure. Resonances for a set of ortho-coupled aromatic protons [δ 7.96 and 7.01 (each 1H, d, J = 8.8 Hz)] were assigned to H-8 and H-7 due to the HMBC correlations (Figure 2) of H-7 (δ 7.01) with C-4b (δ 154.2), C-5 (δ 133.7) and The known compounds were characterized from spectroscopic data, as well as by comparison of NMR spectral data with known compounds as 10-O-methylmacluraxanthone (2) [15], macluraxanthone (3) [16], cudraxanthone Q (4) [17], 5-Omethylxanthone V 1 (5) [18], trapezifolixanthone (6) [19], cudraxanthone L (7) [20], dulxanthone B (8) [11], doitunggarcinone C (9) [3a], 1,5-dihydroxy xanthone (10) [21], caloxanthone L (11) [22], isobractatin (12) [23], forbesione (13) [24], bractatin ( 14) [23], neobractatin ( 15) [25] and xerophenone A ( 16) [26]. Some of the isolated compounds were evaluated for their antibacterial activity (Table 1) against Gram-positive bacteria (Bacillus cereus TISTR 688 and B. subtilis TISTR 088) and Gramnegative bacteria (Escherichia coli TISTR 780 and Salmonella typhimurium TISTR 292).…”