Analysis of the methanol-soluble
resin glycosides from the roots
of Operculina macrocarpa was assessed by generating
NMR profiles of five glycosidic acids obtained through saponification,
acetylation, and recycling HPLC purification. Operculinic acid H (1), two novel hexasaccharides, operculinic acids I (2) and J (3), the known purgic acid A (4), and a quinovopyranoside of (−)-(7R)-hydroxydecanoic acid, operculinic acid K (5), were
isolated. Three intact resin glycosides related to 1,
the novel macrocarposidic acids A (6) and B (7), in addition to the previously known macrocarposidic acid C (8), were also purified with isovaleroyl, tigloyl, and exogonoyl
[(3S,9R)-3,6:6,9-diepoxydecanoyl]
groups as esterifying residues. A selective intramolecular lactonization
was produced to generate a macrocyclic artifact (17)
during acetylation of 1, resembling the distinctive structure
of the Convolvulaceous resin glycosides.