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Phytochemical investigation on the dichloromethane stem bark extract of Calophyllum castaneum resulted in the isolation of five compounds, namely isoblancoic acid (1), blancoic acid (2), euxanthone (3), friedelin (4) and friedelinol (5). All these compounds were isolated for the first time from this plant. Their chemical structures were elucidated based on the spectroscopic analyses. The cytotoxicity of compounds 1-5 was assessed on a panel of cancer cell lines including bone (Saos-2, mg63), colorectal (HT29, Caco-2, HCC2998, SW48, HCT116, KM12), liver (HepG2), lung (H1299, Calu-3), and brain (C6), using 5-fluorouracil as positive control. Pronounced antiproliferative activities were observed for compound 1 which exhibited a comparable activity with the positive control, against brain (C6) and colorectal (SW48, KM12, HCT116) cancer cell lines showing IC |