3-Geranyl-4-methoxybenzoic acid

Food Science and Technology International, Tokyo.2003 May 1;9(2):197-201.

Antioxidative, Antihyaluronidase and Antityrosinase Activities of Some Constituents from the Aerial Part of Piper elongatum VAHL.[Reference: WebLink]

METHODS AND RESULTS:
The scavenging effects on 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH), the antihyaluronidase and the antityrosinase activities of 1–4, asebogenin (8), 2′,6′-dihydroxy-4′-methoxydihydrochalcone (9), 3-Geranyl-4-methoxybenzoic acid (10), 3-geranyl-4-hydroxybenzoic acid (11), nervogenic acid (12) and 2,2-dimethyl-6-carboxyl-8-prenyl-chromene (13), which were previously isolated from the MeOH extract were evaluated.
CONCLUSIONS:
Compounds 4, 8 and 9 showed higher radical scavenging effect than that of L-cysteine, and 4, 8 and 11 exhibited stronger inhibition effect on the activation of hyaluronidase than that of tranilast. Compound 8 indicated almost the same antityrosinase activity as that of kojic acid.

Food Science and Technology Research.1997;3(3):285-289.

Antioxidative Constituents from the Aerial Part of Piper elongatum VAHL.[Reference: WebLink]

METHODS AND RESULTS:
Six aromatic compounds, asebogenin (1), 2',6'-dihydroxy-4'-methoxydihydrochalcone (2), 3-Geranyl-4-methoxybenzoic acid (3), 3-geranyl-4-hydroxybenzoic acid (4), nervogenic acid (5) and 2,2-dimethyl-6-carboxyl-8-prenyl-chromene (6) were isolated from the methanol extract of the aerial part of Piper elongatum VAHL., whose leaves are used as a folk medicine in South America. The structures of 1-6 were elucidated by MS, 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR spectroscopies, and chemical evidence.
CONCLUSIONS:
Among these compounds, 1 showed stronger antioxidative activity than that of α-tocopherol, and 4 and 5 exhibited higher activity than that of t-butyl-4-hydroxyanisole (BHA) using the ferric thiocyanate method.