Juglans mandshurica MAXIM. (Juglandaceae) is widely distributed throughout urban and rural areas in northeast of China. Its fresh rejuvenated fruit, commonly called "Qing Long Yi", has been used as a folk medicine for treatment of cancer and dermatosis and as an anodyne to relieve aches in China. Although phytochemical analyses were extensively carried out on not only the root [1][2][3][4][5] but also the stem bark 6) of J. mandshurica, little chemical work appears to have been done on the chemical composition of its fresh rejuvenated fruit. To our best knowledge, only two naphthalene glucosides, 4-hydroxynaphthalenyl b-D-glucopyranoside and 4,8-dihydroxy-1-naphthalenyl b-D-glucopyranoside have been isolated from the fruit of J. mandshurica.7) The medicinal uses of "Qing Long Yi" prompted us to investigate its chemical constituents, resulting in the isolation of five new atetralonyl glucosides (1-5). This paper deals with the isolation and structural elucidation of the new compounds on the basis of spectroscopic analysis, including two-dimensional NMR spectroscopic data, and the results of hydrolysis.
Results and DiscussionThe fresh rejuvenated fruit of J. mandshurica, which was collected in a mountain area of Heilongjiang Province, China, was decocted twice with water and extracted with hexane, EtOAc and n-BuOH, successively. The n-BuOH extract was chromatographed on a Diaion HP-20 column to give water and 40% methanol eluate fraction. The 40% methanol eluate fraction was chromatographed on an ODS column, and subjected to a combination of silica gel, Lobar RP-C 18 column chromatography, and HPLC. Then, five new compounds, named juglanosides A-E (1-5) were isolated, and their structures were characterized as follows.Juglanoside A (1) was isolated as an amorphous powder. Its molecular formula was determined to be C 16 H 20 O 7 by high-resolution (HR)-FAB-MS. On acid hydrolysis, 1 afforded D-glucose as a component sugar, which was identified by GLC analysis of its trimethylsilyl thiazolidine derivative. The 1 H-NMR spectrum of 1 showed a set of proton signals due to two methylenes at d 3.04 (1H, ddd, Jϭ17.8, 9.5, 4.8 Hz) and 2. 60 (1H, ddd, Jϭ17.8, 6.7, 4.8 Hz), and 2. 44 (1H, dddd, Jϭ13.3, 9.5, 4.8, 3.4 Hz) and 2.36 (1H, dddd, Jϭ13.3, 6.7, 6.2, 4.8 Hz), and an oxymethylene at d 5.10 (1H, dd, Jϭ6.2, 3.4 Hz). Moreover, the 13 C-NMR spectrum, in combination with distortionless enhancement by polarization transfer (DEPT) and Five new a a-tetralonyl glucosides, juglanosides A-E (1-5) were isolated from the fresh rejuvenated fruit of Juglans mandshurica. Their structures were elucidated as (4S)-4-hydroxy-a a-tetralone 4-O-b b-D-glucopyranoside (1), (4S)-4,5-dihydroxy-a a-tetralone 4-O-b b-D-glucopyranoside (2), (4S)-4,6-dihydroxy-a a-tetralone 4-O-b b-D-glucopyranoside (3), (4S)-4,5,8-trihydroxy-a a-tetralone 4-O-b b-D-glucopyranoside (4), and (4S)-4,5,8-trihydroxy-a