• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.58 no.3
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• pp.233-236
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• 2015

The flowers of Magnolia obovata were extracted with aqueous MeOH and fractionated into EtOAc, n-BuOH, and $H_2O$ fractination. Three alkyl glycosides were isolated from the EtOAc fraction through repeated silica gel and ODS column chromatography. The structures were identified to be 2-methylbutan-1-ol-${\beta}$-$\small{D}$-galacto-pyranoside (1), 2-methylbutan-1-ol-${\beta}$-$\small{D}$-glucopyranoside (2), and 2-methylpropan-1-ol-${\beta}$-$\small{D}$-glucopyranoside (3) on the basis of spectroscopic analyses such as fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy, 1D nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) ($^1H$ and $^{13}C-NMR$), and 2D NMR (gCOSY, gHSQC, and gHMBC). These compounds were isolated for the first time from the flower of M. obovata in this study.