文摘
Five new clerodane diterpenoids, polylauiester A (class="boldFont">1), (4 → 2)-abeo-2,13-diformyl-cleroda-2,12E-dien-14-oic acid (class="boldFont">2) and polylauiamides B–D (class="boldFont">3–class="boldFont">5), together with 11 known clerodane diterpenoids (class="boldFont">6–class="boldFont">16), were isolated from the roots of Polyalthia laui. Among them, polylauiester A (class="boldFont">1) represents the first example of a novel norclerodane diterpenoid only containing 17 carbon atoms on the carbon skeleton, and polylauiamide B (class="boldFont">3) is an unusual diterpenoid with a p-substituted benzene ring as a substituent. Their structures were elucidated by extensive spectroscopic methods, and the relative configuration of polylauiamide B (class="boldFont">3) was further confirmed by the single crystal X-ray diffraction method. Biological evaluation of new compounds against human Hela, MCF-7 and A549 human cancer cell lines showed that all compounds displayed weak cytotoxicities against various human cancer cell lines in the range of IC50 at 25.01–39.31 μM.