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JOURNAL OF SEPARATION SCIENCE
Volume 35, Issue 8, Pages 977-983Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201101104
Keywords
Antioxidants; Astragalus altaicus Bunge; Bioassay-guided isolation; Combination of chromatographic techniques; Flavonoids; High-speed counter-current chromatography
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- China National Founds for Distinguished Young Scientists [30925045]
- CAS/SAFEA
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An efficient method for bioassay-guided preparative isolation of antioxidants from the n-butanol extract of Astragalus altaicus Bunge was ingeniously developed by combination of silica gel column chromatography and high-speed counter-current chromatography. Under the bioassay-guidance of antioxidant activities, the antioxidants were gradually separated from the crude sample of Astragalus altaicus Bunge by silica gel column chromatography and high-speed counter-current chromatography. Silica gel column chromatography separation was performed with chloroform, chloroformmethanol (100:1 similar to 5:1, v/v) and chloroformmethanolwater (5:1:0.1 similar to 2:1:0.1, v/v/v). High-speed counter-current chromatography separation was performed with a two-phase solvent system composed of ethyl acetaten-butanolwater (2:1:6, v/v/v), which was successfully selected by thin layer chromatography analysis, at a flow rate of 1.5 mL/min. As a result, isorhamnetin-3-gentiobioside (20.8 mg), rutin (82.0 mg), and narcissin (12.8 mg) were obtained for the first time from 200 mg of the crude sample, ABS-5 of Astragalus altaicus Bunge. The purities were all at over 95% by high-performance liquid chromatography analysis, and their structures were unambiguously identified by mass spectroscopy, 1H, and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Antioxidant activities of the three compounds were also assayed by in vitro ABTS [2,2'-azino-bis-(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid) diamonium salt] radical cation scavenging activity. Among them, rutin possessed the highest antioxidant capacity with SC50 value of 22.15 mu g/mL.
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