“…A MeOH extract of leaves and twigs of aeroponically grown W. somnifera, after removing water and hexane soluble constituents, was subjected to size-exclusion, diol, and reversed-phase column chromatography, prep TLC and HPLC affording compounds 1, 3, and 10 known withanolides identified as withaferin A (Xu et al, 2009), 2,3-dihydrowithaferin A-3b-O-sulfate (Xu et al, 2009), viscosalactone B (Pelletier et al, 1981, 27-deoxywithaferin A (Kirson et al, 1970), withanolide A (Neogi et al, 1988), 27-hydroxywithanolide B (Anjaneyulu and Rao, 1997), pubesenolide (Sahai, 1985), jaborosalactone D (Veleiro et al, 1985), 4b,27-dihydroxy-l-oxo-22R-witha-2,5,24-trienolide (Nittala and Lavie, 1981), and 2,3-didehydrosomnifericin (Kuroyanagi et al, 1999) by comparison of their spectroscopic data ( 1 H NMR and LRMS) with those reported. Withanolide 2 was encountered in a fraction generated during the isolation of withaferin A from a 60% aq.…”