“…The bark is used for the treatment of fever, syphilis, gonorrhoea and malaria, and the white fragrant flower is used traditionally as an abortive agent (Asaruddin et al, 2003). In previous studies, we found four aporphines, two oxoaporphines, three sesquiterpene lactones, one amide, one lignan, one neolignan, three benzenoids, two steroids, three aliphatic compounds and two chlorophylls from M. alba (Chen et al, 2008). As part of our continuing investigation into the phytochemical and bioactive compounds of Magnoliaceous plants (Lo et al, 2004), a new chlorophyll, michephyll A (10), together with 9 known compounds, (À)-N-formylanonaine (1) (Bentley, 1999), (À)-oliveroline (2) (Perez, Saez, Blair, Franck, & Figadere, 2004), (þ)-nornuciferine (3) (Cava, Rao, Douglas, & Weisbach, 1968), lysicamine (4) (Zhang et al, 2002), (þ)-cyperone (5) (Sonwa & Konig, 2001), (þ)-epi-yangambin (6) (Chao et al, 2002), ficaprenol-10 (7) (Aoki, Matsuo, Suga, & Oiita, 1997), pheophytin a (8) (Walkera, Squiera, Hodgsonb, & Keelya, 2002) and aristophyll C (9) (Chan, Leu, & Wu, 1999) were obtained via chromatographic fractionation of the methanolic extract of the leaves of this plant.…”