Five new meroterpenoids, zizhines P-S and U (1−4,7), together with two known meroterpenoids (5 and 6) were isolated from Ganoderma sinensis. Their structures including absolute configurations were assigned by using spectroscopic, computational, and chemical methods. Racemics zizhines P and Q were purified by HPLC on chiral phase. Biological evaluation found that 4, 5 and 6 are cytotoxic toward human cancer cells (A549, BGC-823, Kyse30) with IC50 values in the range of 63.43–80.83 μM towards A549, 59.2 ± 2.73 μM and 64.25 ± 0.37 μM towards BGC-823, 76.28 ± 1.93 μM and 85.42 ± 2.82 μM towards Kyse30.

Two new octanorlanostane-type triterpenes, euphraticanoids A and B (1 and 2), two new trinorsesquiterpenoids, euphraticanoids C and D (3 and 4), and eight known triterpenoids (5, 6, 8–13) along with one steroid (7) were isolated from Populus euphratica resins. The structures of these new compounds, including their absolute configurations, were characterized by spectrocsopic, chemical, and computational methods. Biological evaluation revealed that compounds 4, 7–9, 12, and 13 display neuroprotective activities in H2O2-induced HT-22 cells with 4, 8, and 9 occurring in a concentration-dependent manner and 7, 12, and 13 reaching the maximum effects at 20 μM. Meanwhile, the neuroprotective properties of all isolates were accessed using glutamate-induced SH-SY5Y cells and disclosed that compounds 3, 4, 8, and 9 could dose-dependently protect neural cell injury in a concentration range of 10–40 μM. Finally, a brief structure–activity relationship was briefly discussed.

Using cyenopyrafen as the lead compound, a series of novel pyrazole acrylonitrile compounds were designed and synthesized via the reaction of butylphenylacetonitrile with the corresponding (substituted pyrazol‐5‐yl) methanone of pyrethroid alcohols in the presence of potassium tert‐butoxide. These compounds showed prominent acaricidal activity against Tetranchus urticae. In particular, IIf, IIh, IIo, and IIp displayed excellent activities, which the median lethal concentrations were all lower 0.4 mg/L. In addition, the structure‐activity relationship for the target compounds was discussed.

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Main observation and conclusion Boswelliains A—E (1—5), five new cembrane‐type diterpenoids, were isolated from the resin of Boswellia papyifera. Their structures, determined by using spectroscopic, computational and chemical methods, demonstrate that 2—5 are novel 4,5‐seco‐, 4,5‐seco‐, 9,10‐seco‐, and 6,7‐seco‐cembrane diterpenoids, and that 1, 4 and 5 bear aldehyde moieties. An evaluation of the wound healing properties of these natural products along with a derivative of 2 shows that compounds 2 and 3 significantly stimulate proliferation, mobility and tuber formation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) at the concentration of 20 μmol/L.

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