Organizing co mmittee

PHYTOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF Artemisia persica
FROM THE FLORA OF UZBEKISTAN 
 
J.F. Umaraliev
1,3
, A.A. Ganiev
2
, N.B. Begmatov
1,2
,
 
Kh.M. Bobakulov
2
, Zhao Bo
1
,
N.D. Abdullaev
2
, H.A. Aisa
1
 
 
1) Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 
Urumqi 830011, China, E-mail: [e-mail] 
2) Acad. S. Yu. Yunusov Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of 
Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, 77, M. Ulugbek str., 100170, Tashkent, 
Uzbekistan, [e-mail] 
3) University of Chinese Academy of Science, 100039, Beijing, P. R. China 
The genus 
Artemisia L
. is one of the largest in the 
Asteraceae
family and is 
interesting with respect to chemistry, because it is the source of many secondary 
metabolites including terpenoids, flavonoids, and coumarins [1]. The 
Artemisia
species 
commonly known as mugwort, wormwood and sagebrush are reported to possess 
various pharmacological activities such as antimicrobial, antioxidant, anticonvulsant 
agent, anticoagulant, antidiabetic, antispasmodic, anthelmintic, anticancer, colds, 
anticolic, anticoughs, cardiac stimulant, dyspepsia, febrifuge, insecticidal, headaches, 
anti-inflammatory, antimalarial, stomachic and antiulcer etc. [2]. 
We have investigated aerial part of 
A. persica
collected in Namangan Region of the 
Uzbekistan. Air-dried raw material was extracted exhaustively with EtOH (96-70%) at 
room temperature. The chloroform fraction was chromatographed over a column with 
silica gel by elution with 
n
-hexane:CHCl
3
:MeOH. Three compounds (