Abstract:Chemical constituents of Swertia patens. The whole plant of air-dried Swertia patens was extracted with 90% EtOH. The water extract was suspended in H2 O and extracted with petroleum ether, EtOAc and n-BuOH, successively. The compounds were isolated and purified by column chromatography from the EtOAc fraction, and identified based on spectral analyses(MS, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR). Eighteen compounds were isolated and elucidated as 3, 4-dihydro-1H,6H,8H-naptho[1,2-c:4,5-c‘,d‘dipyrano-1, 8-dione(1), angelone(2), gentiogenal(3), erythricin(4), erythrocentaurin(5), gentianine(6), swertiakoside B(7), swertiamarin(8), 2‘-O-actylswertiamarin(9), amarogentin(10), 1, 3, 5-trihydroxyxanthone(11), 1, 3-dihydroxy-5-methoxyxanthone(12), 1-hydroxy-2, 3, 5-trimethoxyxanthone(13), gentiocrucine(14), 3-hydroxyphenylketone(15), n-hexacosyl ester 4-hydroxy-trans-cinnamate(16), n-hexacosyl ester 4-hydroxy-cis-cinnamate(17), and cholest-4-en-3-one(18)。Compounds 1-7, 9-18 were obtained from S. patens for the first time.