Constituents of the flowers of Punica granatum

✍ Scribed by Rufeng Wang; Wei Wang; Liang Wang; Ruining Liu; Yi Ding; Lijun Du

• Book ID: 113623624
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 132 KB
• Volume: 77
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0367-326X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.fitote.2006.06.011

✦ Synopsis

A new polyphenol compound named pomegranatate (1), together with, ellagic acid, 3,3',4'-tri-O-methylellagic acid, ethyl brevifolincarboxylate, urolic and maslinic acids, and daucosterol were isolated from the ethanolic extract of the flowers of Punica granatum. The structure of compound 1 was determined by spectroscopic analysis. Maslinic acid exhibited antioxidant activity, evaluated by measurement of LDL susceptibility to oxidation.