摘要： Angelica sinesis (Oliv) Diels is a traditional Chinese drug used clinically in the treatment of gynecological diseases. Its polysaccharide fraction been reported to have several immunomodulating, antitumor, antiradiation activities^[1] and a recent paper showed it could obviously act on the hemopoietic system^[2]. Haruki Y. et al. have elucidated the chemical structure of a α(1→4) linked D-glucan from Angelica acutiloba^[3]. We now describe the structure of a water soluble glucan, AS-1, which was isolated and purified from the water extract of Angelica sinesis (Oliv) Diels. It is only composed of D-glucose and its mean molecular weight is estimated to be 5.3×10⁵. The absorption peak of 846cm^-1 on IR, the chemical shift of δ 99.98 ppm for C-1,and the 168 Hz of ¹J_C-H suggested that the D-glucose residues were α-linked. Methylation analysis (Table 1),periodate oxidation, Smith degradation, ¹H NMR and ¹³C NMR (Table 2) showed that it is α(l→6) linked D-glucan to which are attached two glucosyl side chains, Glc-(l→3)-Glc→1 and Glc-(1→4)-Glc→1, both at 3-O of the glucosyl residues of every 14th glucose units of the main chain. The structure was further proved by using HMBC,HMQC and DQF-COSY techniques. The details of its pharmacological results will be published elsewhere.

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