“…Earlier work on ether and ethyl acetate extracts of Chrysothamnus paniculatus (Gray) Hall (Compositae) gave a series of grindelane diterpenoids (1-3). We now report the presence, in the methanol extract of this plant, four shikimate prearomatics: 3,4,5-tricaffeoylquinic acid (la), which is new, and 3,4-, 3,5-and 4,5-dicaffeoylquinic acids (2a, 3a and 4a, respectively), which had been found in coffee beans (4) and various other plants (5). These four natural products were not separated but were converted into their methylate derivatives lb-4b, which were separated chromatographically and characterized by 'H-nmr (table 1), 13C-nmr (table 2), and mass spectroscopy (scheme 1), as described below.…”