Two new
-orcinol depsidones,
1 and
2, together with 13 known compounds were isolated from the lichen
Usneaarticulata. The structures of
1 and
2 were elucidated by spectroscopic analyses and those of known compounds bycomparison of their spectroscopic data with literature values or by direct comparison with authentic standards. Compounds
1,
2, and
5 exhibited moderate antiradical activity in the 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) assay. The depsidones
4 and
5 showed better superoxide anion scavenging activity (IC
50 = 566 and 580
M, respectively) than quercetin(IC
50 = 754
M).