Abstract
The chemical constituents of the stem of Alnus formosana Burk. were investigated and sixteen known compounds, composed of eleven triterpenoids and five sterols, were isolated and characterized from the n-hexane- and chloroform-soluble fractions of the methanol extract. Of these, seven triterpenoids, lupeol, lupenone, betulinic acid, 3-O-acetylbetulinic acid, 3-O-acetylerythrodiol, 3-O-acetyloleanolic aldehyde, and taraxerone, were isolated for the first time from an Alnus species. The isolation of the five sterols, stigmastanone, stigmast-4-en-3-one, β-sitosterol, β-sitosteryl-β-D-glucoside, and stigmasta-3,6-dione, is also the first time that the presence of such natural products has been recorded for an Alnus species. Taraxerone and betulinic acid were the major non-polar constituents of the stem of A. formosana.
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