Two new flavonol glycosides from Sedum Aizoon L.

Article abstract of DOI:10.3987/COM-10-12082

Two new flavonol glycosides, Sedacins C (1) and D (2), and two known compounds (3-4), have been isolated from the whole plant of Sedum aizoon L. Their structures have been established as 6′-O-(E)-feruloylquercetin (1) and 6′-O-(E)-feruloylisorhamnetin (2) by means of spectroscopic analysis and chemical methods. The Japan Institute of Heterocyclic Chemistry.

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Received, 16th October, 2010, Accepted, 22nd November, 2010, Published online, 30th November, 2010
DOI: 10.3987/COM-10-12082
TWO NEW FLAVONOL GLYCOSIDES FROM SEDUM AIZOON L.
Wei Lin Li, a,* Qiu Yan Luo, b Li qiang Wu,a and Lei Xiao c
a Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacy College of Xinxiang Medical
b
University, Xinxiang 453003, China
Department of Gynecological and
Obstetric, the Third Affiliated Hospital to Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang
c
453003, China
Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resources
Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education & Institute of
Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union
Medical College, Beijing, 100050, China
*E-mail address: liweilin2002@163.com
Abstract – Two new flavonol glycosides, Sedacins C (1) and D (2), and two
known compounds (3-4), have been isolated from the whole plant of Sedum
aizoon L. Their structures have been established as 6''-O-(E)-feruloylquercetin (1)
and 6''-O-(E)-feruloylisorhamnetin (2) by means of spectroscopic analysis and
chemical methods.
Sedum aizoon L. is an endemic plant, named as ‘tusanqi’ in folk medicine. It is useful in tranquilization
and arresting bleeding and relieving stasis and decoction for counteracting toxicity, which has been used
to treat pain or traumatic, various hemorrhage and palpitation.1-2 There are about 150 Sedum species
distributed in China, it has light green leaves on thick stems and a yellow flower blooming in the summer.
Previously, the phytochemical constituents of Sedum species, a large genus of family Crassulaceae, have
been extensively reported.3-6 In our recent research on this plant, The repeated column chromatographic
separation of the ethyl acetate and BuOH fractions of the MeOH extract resulted in the isolation of two
new flavonol glycosides (1-2), as well as two known flavonol glycosides (3-4), The structures of the
known compounds were determined to kaempferol-7-O-β-D-glucoside (3),7 luteolin-7-O-β-D-glucoside
(4)8 by comparing their spectroscopic data with those in the literatures.

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5'''
HO
6'''
1'''
4'''
R
3'
2'
1
O
8
3'''
9
MeO
O
9'''
O
2'''
7''' 8'''
OH
6''
7
4'
5'
O
O
OH
6
3
10
OH
5
4
1''
OH O
OH
OH
1 R=OH
2 R=OMe
Figure 1. Structures of compounds 1 and 2
Compound 1 (structure given in Figure 1) was isolated as yellowish powder. The HRESIMS showed a
quasi-molecular ion peak at m/z 677.1572 [M+Na]+ (calcd for 677.1585), corresponding to a molecular
formula of C32H30O15. The IR spectrum indicated the presence of hydroxyl groups, an ester carbonyl
group and an aromatic ring. Its 1H NMR spectrum showed the presence of one chelated hydroxyl group (δ
13.09, s, 5-OH), three ABX protons belonging to a 3,4-disubstituted phenyl group (δ 7.48, 1H, d, J = 2.3,
H-2'; δ 6.87, 1H, d, J = 8.0 Hz, H-5'; δ 7.51, 1H, dd, J = 2.3, 8.0 Hz, H-6'), two protons typical of a
5,7-disubstituted ring A (δ 6.42, 6.81, each 1H, d, J = 2.1 Hz, H-8 and H-6), and an anomeric proton
representing a glycosyl unit (δ 5.18, d, J = 7.9 Hz), These data, together with those of the 13C NMR
spectroscopy, indicated the presence of a quercetin9 and a hexose unit. 10 After acid hydrolysis, quercetin
was obtained as the aglycone, glucose moiety was detected by comparison with authentic samples.
1
Meanwhile a glucopyranosyl group was also deduced by H and 13C NMR data (Table 1), where the
coupling constant of H-1'' (J = 7.9 Hz) suggested a β-anomeric configuration for the glucosyl and its
D-configuration was determined via acid hydrolysis comparing with standard D-glucose, the HMBC
crosspeak between C-7 and H-1'' established the linkage point quercetin and the glucosyl moiety (Figure
2). The presence of a feruloyl moiety was deduced from an ABX spin system at δ 6.81 (1H, d, J = 8.5 Hz,
H-5'''), δ 7.05 (1H, dd, J = 2.0, 8.0 Hz, H-6'''), and δ 7.19 (1H, d, J = 2.0 Hz, H-2'''). The E-configuration
of the double bond was recognized by the large coupling constant of the coupled olefinic protons at δ 7.64
(1H, d, J = 15.9 Hz, H-7''') and δ 6.39 (1H, d, J = 15.9 Hz, H-8'''). The methoxy group at δ 3.85 (3H, s,
OCH3) was determined at C-3''' of the feruloyl, which was evidenced by the cross-peaks of the O-methyl
hydrogens to C-3''' (δ 149.1) in HMBC spectrum (Figure 2). The connection of the glucopyranosyl group
through C-6'' to the carbonyl group of trans-feruloyl at C-9''' was determined by the HMBC correlations,
where the cross-peaks of H-6'' (δ 4.64 and 4.24) to C-9''' (δ 168.7) were presented. Thus, the structure of 1
was elucidated to be 7-O-(6''-O-trans-feruloyl)-β-D-glucopyranosyl-3,5,3',4'-tetrahydroxyflavone[6''-O-
(E)-feruloylquercetin] and named Sedacin C.

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HO
4'''
1'''
3'''
MeO
9'''
O
R
3'
6''
O
4'
O
O
O
OH 1''
OH
7
3
5
OH
OH
OH
OH O
1 R=OH
2 R=OMe
Figure 2. Key HMBC correlations of compounds 1 and 2
Compound 2 (structure given in Figure 1) was obtained as yellowish powder. The molecular formula was
determined to be C33H32O15 from HRESIMS, which showed a quasi-molecular ion peak at m/z 691.1741
[M + Na]+. Its IR, UV, and NMR spectroscopic data showed patterns very similar to those of 1, except for
a 3', 4'-di-O-substituted B ring as indicated by the 1H NMR signals of δ 7.52 (1H, d, J = 2.1 Hz, H-2'), δ
6.95 (1H, d, J = 8.0 Hz, H-5' ), and δ 7.42 (1H, dd, J = 8.0, 2.1 Hz, H-6'). For the two methoxy groups,
one at δ 3.72 (3H, s, OCH3) was assigned at C-3' by observed long-range correlation between the
O-methyl hydrogens and C-3' (δ 147.8) in the HMBC spectrum. The other at δ 3.81 (3H, s, OCH3) was
determined at C-3''' for a feruloyl, where the cross-peaks of the O-methyl hydrogens to C-3''' (δ 149.3) in
HMBC was observed (Figure 2). The presence of a β-glucopyranosyl group was confirmed by 13C NMR
(Table 1). The glycosidic site and the position of the feruloyl group were the same as for 1 and were
determined by the HMBC in which the correlations of H-1'' to C-7 (δ 165.7) and H-6'' (δ 4.62, 4.21) to
C-9''' (δ 167.0) were observed (Figure 2). On the basis of the NMR analysis (Table 1), 2 was identified as
7-O-(6''-O-trans-feruloyl)-β-D-glucopyranosyl-3,5,4'-trihydroxy-3'-methoxyflavone[6''-O-(E)-feruloylisor
hamnetin] and named Sedacin D.
EXPERIMENTAL
General. Melting points were determined on an XT digital melting-point apparatus with a microscope
and are uncorrected. UV and IR spectra were recorded respectively with a Jasco V-650 spectrophotometer
and a Thermo Nicolet 5700 infrared spectrometer with KBr pellets. HR ESIMS was measured on an
Agilent 6520 Accurate-Mass Q-TOF LC/MS. NMR spectra were recorded on a Varian Mercury-400
spectrometer at 400 MHz (1H) and 100 MHz (13C), with TMS as internal standard. Silica gel (Qingdao
Marine Chemical Factory, 160-200 and 200-300 mesh), Sephadex LH-20 (Pharmacia) and RP-18 (Merck,
40-60 μm) were used for column chromatography (CC). Precoated plates of silica gel GF254 and silica gel
RP-18 F254 (Merck) were used for TLC, and detected under UV light or by heating after spraying with

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98% H2SO4-EtOH (10:90, v/v). Reversed-phase HPLC separations were performed on a Shimadzu 6A
system, detected by a UV detector at 254 nm and equipped with a YMC semipreparative C18 column (10
μm, 10 × 250 mm) running with a flow rate of 4 ml/min.
Plant material. The plant of Sedum aizoon L. was collected from Taihang Mountain, in Henan province,
P. R. China, in September 2007, and identified by professor Chen-Ming Dong, Henan College of
Traditional Chinese Medicine. A voucher specimen (No. 200798) had been deposited at the Herbarium of
Pharmacy College of Xinxiang Medical University.
Extraction and isolation. The dry whole plant tissue of Sedum aizoon L. (4.5 kg) was macerated at room
temperature with MeOH for 48 h, four times (4 ×10 L, 7 days) and filtered. The combined methanolic
extract was concentrated in vacuo to yield a crude extract (350 g), which was dissolved in water (2.0 L)
and then partitioned with petroleum ether (4 × 1 L), EtOAc (4 × 1 L), and n-BuOH (4 × 1 L) successively.
The EtOAc layer was evaporated to give 95.4 g residue, the EtOAc residue (95.4 g) was chromatographed
over a silica gel column eluted with a solvent system of petroleum ether-acetone and MeOH. The fraction
(4.2 g) of petroleum ether-acetone (7:3) continued silica gel CC elution with CHCl3/MeOH (100:0 to 0:1)
to give 10 subfractions. Subfraction 2 of CHCl3/MeOH (9:1, 724 mg) was subjected to a Sephadex LH-20
column chromatography using CHCl3-MeOH (1:1) to obtain a target portion (246 mg), and purified by
preparative RP-HPLC with an ODS column (MeOH:H2O 75:25) to afford compound 1 (12 mg, flow rate
4.0 mL/min), Subfraction 3 of CHCl3/MeOH ( 8:2, 324 mg) was purified by Sephadex LH-20 CC using
CHCl3-MeOH (1:1) and preparative HPLC (80% aqueous MeOH, 4 mL/min) to yield compound 2 (9 mg,
flow rate 4.0 mL/min) . The 80 g of the BuOH fraction (230 g) passed over a D101 macroporous resin CC
(1 kg) eluted with a gradient of aqueous EtOH (0, 30, 60, 75, 100%, v/v) to yield five fractions (1–5).
Fraction 3 (6.3 g) was subjected to reversed-phase silica gel (100 g) CC and eluted with gradient aqueous
MeOH (0, 30, 60, 95%, v/v) to give four fractions (3.1–3.4), Fraction 3.2 (740 mg) was purified by
Sephadex LH-20 CC (eluted with MeOH) to yield compound 3 ( 5.4mg), Fraction 3.3 (0.6 g) was also
purified by Sephadex LH-20 CC (eluted with MeOH) to give compound 4 (7.5mg).
6''-O-(E)-Feruloylquercetin: Yellowish powder (MeOH); mp 235.3–235.1 °C; UV(MeOH) λmax (nm):
256, 285, 364; [α]2D0 -72.5 ( c 0.2, MeOH ); IR (KBr) ν: 3320, 1609, 1513, 1457, 1350, 1266, 1165 cm-1;
13
1H NMR (DMSO-d6, 400 MHz): and C NMR (DMSO-d6, 100MHz) data see Table 1; ESIMS m/z:
655.2 [M+H]+, 677.2 [M+Na]+; HRESIMS m/z: 677.1572 [M+Na]+ (calcd for C32H30NaO15, 677.1585).

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6''-O-(E)-Feruloylisorhamnetin: Yellowish powder (MeOH); mp 258.3–259.0 °C; UV(MeOH)
λmax(nm): 254, 287, 378; [α]2D0-63.5 ( c 0.2, MeOH ); IR (KBr) ν: 3328, 1619, 1543, 1427, 1350, 1266,
1
13
1145 cm-1; H NMR (DMSO-d6, 400 MHz): and C NMR (DMSO-d6, 100MHz) data see Table 1;
ESIMS m/z: 669.2 [M+H]+, 691.2 [M+Na]+; HRESIMS m/z: 691.1741 [M+Na]+ (calcd for C33H32NaO15,
691.1756).
Acid Hydrolysis of compounds 1-2
A solution of compounds 1-2 (3.0 mg, each) in 1 M HCl (1.0 mL) was heated under reflux for 3 h. After
cooling, the reaction mixture was extracted with EtOAc, and the residues from the organic phase were
identified as quercetin (isorhamnetin) and ferulic acid by comparative TLC [Si gel, CHCl3-MeOH (8:2)]
with authentic samples available in our laboratory. The aqueous phase was concentrated, and the sugar
was identified as β-D-glucose by TLC [Si gel, BuOH-AcOH-H2O (3:1:1)] with a standard sample
(Merck).
Table 1. 1H NMR and 13C NMR chemical shifts of 1–2
1
2
Position
δH (J Hz)
δC
δH (J Hz)
δC
2
133.5
122.4
187.0
158.3
98.7
132.7
122.4
186.5
154.3
98.7
3
4
5
6
6.42 d (2.1)
6.81 d (2.1)
6.52 d (2.0)
6.75 d (2.0)
7
166.7
94.8
165.7
95.2
8
9
159.9
104.2
160.0
104.2
10
1'
122.7
122.7
2'
3'
4'
5'
6'
7.48 d (2.3)
116.8
146.5
148.9
115.6
121.4
7.52 d (2.1)
116.8
147.8
146.7
115.6
119.5
6.87 d ( 8.0 )
6.95 d ( 8.0 )
7.52 dd ( 2.3, 8.0 )
7.42 dd ( 2.1, 8.0 )

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1''
5.18 d ( 7.9 )
3.62 m
102.5
73.8
76.2
72.1
75.1
63.8
4.96 d ( 7.9 )
102.3
74.8
76.2
73.1
76.1
64.8
2''
3.69 m
3''
3.56 m
3.56 m
4''
3.34 m
3.38 m
5''
3.75 m
3.72 m
6''a
4.64 dd (12.0, 1.5 )
4.24 dd (12.0, 5.0 )
4.62 dd (12.0, 1.5 )
4.21 dd (12.0, 5.0 )
6''b
1'''
128.4
113.5
149.1
142.4
116.4
119.8
142.8
117.6
165.0
128.4
114.7
149.3
142.8
117.3
120.4
143.5
119.1
167.0
2'''
7.19 d ( 2.0 )
7.19 d ( 2.0 )
3'''
4'''
5'''
6.81 d ( 8.5 )
6.80 d ( 8.4 )
6'''
7.05 dd ( 2.0, 8.5 )
7.64 d (15.9 )
6.39 d (15.9 )
7.05 dd ( 2.0, 8.4 )
7.66 d (15.9 )
6.41 d (15.9 )
7'''
8'''
9'''
3-OH
5-OH
3'- OMe
4'- OH
3'''- OMe
9.46 s
9.57 s
12.59 s
3.72 s
10.15 s
3.81 s
13.09 s
58.3
57.9
10.12 s
3.85 s
56.3
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This research program was supported by Foundation for high academic qualifications of Xinxiang
Medical University, China (No. 05SSKYQD).
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