“…So, in our continuing investigation on the chemical constituents of Shorea, S. acuminata Dyer who belong to the Red Meranti group of Shorea better known by locals as 'Meranti Rambai Daun', was selected as the study species. This paper will report the isolation and structure elucidation of (-)-hopeanolin (1) [7], (-)-laevifonol (2) [8], (-)--viniferin (3) [9], (-)-vaticanol B (4) [10] and (-)-hopeaphenol (5) [11] ( Fig. 1), isolated from the twigs of S. acuminata, as well as *Address correspondence to this author at the Institute of Teacher Education, Ministry of Education, Block 2200, Jalan Persiaran Apec, Cyber 6, 63000 Cyberjaya, Selangor D.E., Malaysia; E-mail: norhayatimuhammad@ymail.com their antioxidant activity towards DPPH radicals andcarotene bleaching by linoleic acid.…”