Chemical Constituents from Pedicularis rex C. B. Clarke

Abstract

One new ionone glycoside, pedicurexoside (1), one new flavonoid, 5, 4′-dihydroxy-3′-methoxyflavone- 7-O-6″-n-butyryl-β -D-glucopyranoside (2), two new iridoid glycosides, 6-O-ethyl-aucubin (7), 6-O-ethyl-epiaucubin (8), and one new phenylpropanoid glycoside, 4-hydroxy-phenylpropenyl- α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1→3)-4-O- feruloyl-β -D-glucopyranoside (13), together with eleven known compounds, apigenin (3), luteolin (4), chrysoeriol (5), luteolin-7-O-β -D-glucopyranoside (6), aucubin (9), yuheinoside (10), euphroside (11), mussaenoside (12), verbascoside (14), martynoside (15) and isomartynoside (16), were isolated from Pedicularis rex. The structures of 1 - 16 were elucidated mainly by 1D and 2D NMR techniques, MS evidence and chemical methods. The ionone derivative with thirteen carbon atoms was found in Pedicularis plants for the first time.