• Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.194-198
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• 2005

Two antioxidative compounds were isolated from the methanolic extract of Eleutherococcus senticosus Max. plantlets and identified as chlorogenic acid and 1,4-di-o-caffeoyl-quinic acid on the basis of mass spectroscopy, $^1H-NMR$ and $^{13}C-NMR$ data. The DPPH free radical scavenging activities of chlorogenic acid $(RC_{50}\;:\;1.2\;{\mu}g)$ and 1,4-di-o-caffeoyl-quinic acid $(RC_{50}\;:\;0.4\;{\mu}g)$ were more effective than those of ${\alpha}-tocopherol\;(RC_{50}\;:\;12\;{\mu}g)$. Of them, 1,4-di-o-caffeoyl-quinic acid compound were isolated for the first time from this plant.