Name Senkyunolide A
Appearance White crysta
CAS No. 63038-10-8
Formulae
Molecular Weight 192.26
Natural Resources
Bioactivities
Identification Optical rotation [α]18D-60.5 (c, 0.5 in chloroform)
[α]24D-43.2 (EtOH)
1HNMR
13CNMR
Analytical Method
INSTRUMENT Silica gel 60 F254 preparative TLC plates (1.0 mm thickness, 20 x 20 cm, E. Merck, Darmstadt, Germany)
MOBILE PHASE Petroleum: ether-ethyl acetate = 85 : 15, v/v
DETECTION UV λ280 nm
INSTRUMENT Agilent 1290 UPLC system (Agilent Technologies, Waldbronn, Germany), and Aglient 6520 Q-TOF mass spectrometer (Agilent Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA) was connected to the Agilent 1290 UPLC via an ESI interface. The quantitative analysis was carried out on a Waters Acquity UPLC™ instrument (Waters Corporation, Milford, MA, USA) equipped with DAD.
COLUMN ZORBAX SB-C18 column (100 mm × 4.6 mm, 1.8 μm particle size, Agilent), 50°C
MOBILE PHASE A: 0.1% formic acid-water, B: acetonitrile, 0-7 min 5-17% B, 7-14 min 17-25% B, 14-16 min 25-28% B, 16-22 min 28-30% B, 22-33 min 30-85% B, 33-40 min 85-95% B, 0.4 mL/min.
DETECTION Positive and negative ion modes, drying gas (N2): 10.0 L/min 350°C, nebulizer gas: 40 psig, capillary: 4500 V, fragmentor: 150 V, skimmer: 65 V, octopole RF: 750 V
INSTRUMENT Agilent 1290 UPLC system (Agilent Technologies, Waldbronn, Germany), and Aglient 6520 Q-TOF mass spectrometer (Agilent Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA) was connected to the Agilent 1290 UPLC via an ESI interface. The quantitative analysis was carried out on a Waters Acquity UPLC™ instrument (Waters Corporation, Milford, MA, USA) equipped with DAD.
COLUMN ZORBAX SB-C18 column (100 mm × 4.6 mm, 1.8 μm particle size, Agilent), 50°C
MOBILE PHASE A: 0.1% formic acid-water, B: acetonitrile, 0-7 min 5-17% B, 7-14 min 17-25% B, 14-16 min 25-28% B, 16-22 min 28-30% B, 22-33 min 30-85% B, 33-40 min 85-95% B, 0.4 mL/min.
DETECTION UV λ230 nm, UV λ250 nm, UV λ280 nm
INSTRUMENT Shimadzu LC-20AVP system equipped with two LC-20AT solvent delivery units, an SPD-M20AVP UV-vis photodiode array detector (DAD) system, a Model 7725 injection valve with a 20 μL loop and an auto-sampler, an SCL-20AVP system controller, and a Class-VP-LC work station (Shimadzu, Kyoto, Japan).
COLUMN Apollo C18 column (150 × 4.6 mm I.D., 5 μm), 30°C
MOBILE PHASE A: MeOH, B: 0.05% H3PO4, 0-3 min 45-40% B, 3-17 min 40-33% m, 17-43 min 33%, 1 mL min
DETECTION UV λ254 nm
INSTRUMENT Agilent 1100 series HPLC-DAD system comprising a vacuum degasser, binary pump, autosampler, thermostated column compartment, and DAD (Hewlett Packard, U.S.A.) was used for quantitative analysis and UV spectra acquisition.
COLUMN Alltima C18 column (5μm, 4.6mm × 150 mm, Alltech Associates, Inc., U.S.A.) with a compatible guard column (C18, 5μm, 4.6mm × 7.5 mm), 30°C
MOBILE PHASE 1% acetic acid in water : methanol = 40 : 60, 1 mL/min
DETECTION UV λ280 nm. Applied Biosystems/PESCIEX API 365 LC-MS system with electrospray ionization source (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, U.S.A.). drying gas: 7 L/min 300°C, scan range: 50-500 u, orifice: 26V, focusing: 170V, and electrospray: 5000V.
Sample Preparation
METHOD 1
HSCCC instrument (Beijing Institute of New Technology Application, Beijing, China) used was a Model GS-20 A analytical multilayer coil planet centrifuge equipped with a PTFE multilayer coil of 70 m × 0.85 mm I.D. with a total capacity of 40 mL
n: hexane: ethyl acetate: methanol: water: acetonitrile = 8: 2: 5: 5: 5, v/v
1.0 mL/min, 1600 rpm
UV λ254 nm
METHOD 2
Sample powder was macerated in 95% ethanol at room temperature with continous sonication for 30 min. And solvent partitions sequentially with n-C6H14 EtOAc and n-BuOH.
EtOAc fraction was applied to silica gel column and eluted by 100% EtOAc, EtOAc and CH3OH (8: 2), EtOAc and CH3OH (1: 2), CH3OH 100%. The pure senkyunolide A was obtained from the eluate of EtOAc 100% fractions.
Reference
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