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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 949, Issue 1-2, Pages 249-262Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9673(01)01498-4
Keywords
ion-pair chromatography; plant materials; pyrrolizidines; alkaloids; hexanesulfonic acid
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Cation-exchange solid-phase extraction using LiChrolut SCX (Merck, Darmstadt) cartridges filled with polymeric strong cation-exchanger enabled efficient isolation of both N-oxides and free bases of pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs). The recoveries were about 80% for retrorsine-N-oxide, 90% for retrorsine and 100% for senkirkine and were assessed both by TLC-densitometry and ion-pair high-performance liquid chromatography (HPIPC) on Hypersil BDS C-8 stationary phase and hexane-1-sulfonic acid as ion-pairing agent. The applied HPIPC gradient procedure was suitable for separation of PAs with various types of structures (N-oxides, free bases, otonecine-PAs). The method limits of detection and quantitation, respectively, ranged from 0.06 ng/mul (senecionine) and 0.2 ng/mul (senkirkine) to 0.1 and 0.35 ng/mul for retrorsine-N-oxide. For each component calibrated by linear regression method, correlation coefficients were higher than 0.9995 (six-point calibration from 4 to tOO mug/ml). The elaborated procedure was used in searching for PAs in plant derived samples from Symphytum sp. (comfrey), Petasites hybridus and Petasites albus (butterbur), Tussilago farfara (coltsfoot), Emilia coccinea (tassel flower) and Doronicum columnae (leopard's bane). For the last three samples macrocyclic PAs (senecionine, senecionine-N-oxide, senkirkine) have been detected for the first time. Details of precision of the analyses are also included. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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