AnamSHORT Sajid et al., COMMUNICATION J.Chem.Soc.Pak., Vol. 40, No. 01, 2018 249 Bioassay Directed Isolation Studies on Hypericum oblongifolium 1Anam Sajid, 1Ejaz Ahmed*, 1Ahsan Sharif, 1Faiza Arshed, 1Muhammad Arshad, 2Muhammad Sher 3Arfaa Sajid and 1Sumra Amanat 1Institute of Chemistry, University of The Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, 54590, Pakistan. 2Department of Chemistry, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan. 3Department of Chemistry, Government College Woman University, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
[email protected]* (Received on 1st August 2017, accepted in revised form 20th October 2017) Summary: One new taraxastane type triterpene (1) along with eight known compounds have been isolated from chloroform soluble fraction of Hypericum oblongifolium. The structures of the isolated compounds were elucidated on the basis of modern sophisticated 1D and 2D-NMR and mass spectrometric techniques. The known compounds were recognized as 4,4-dimethyl cholesterol (2), lupeol (3), taraxerol (4), 4,4-dimethylergosta-8,14,24(28)-triene-3β,12β,17α-triol (5), oleanolic acid (6) erectasteroid D (7), (S)-4',5-dihydroxy-7-methoxyflavanone (8), β-sitosterol-3-O-β-D- glucopyranoside (9). All the compounds were evaluated for their lipoxygenase inhibitory potential. Keywords: Hypericum oblongifolium, Taraxastane, 1D, 2D-NMR and MS techniques, Lipoxygenase enzyme Introduction Hypericum oblongifolium is a flowering Experimental plant in the Hypericaceae family, which comprises 9 genera and 540 species. It is a herbaceous plant and Column chromatography (CC): silica gel generally 612 meters in height. The leaves are 0.060-0.200 mm, 60 A. TLC: pre-coated silica gel 60 yellowish green in color and 12 cm long.