CQL might also have beneficial biological activities. Until now there is a lack of pure standard compounds for quantification and biological testing. Using high-speed countercurrent chromatography, mg amounts of lactones could be isolated. The structures of 3-O-caffeoyl-γ-quinide, 4-O-caffeoyl-muco-γ-quinide and 5-O-caffeoyl-epi-δ-quinide were confirmed by 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy including 13C NMR data which were previously not available from the literature. An UHPLC method was developed which enabled the separation of the lactones from roasted coffee in significant shorter time than conventional HPLC.