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CHEMICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN
Volume 56, Issue 2, Pages 227-230Publisher
PHARMACEUTICAL SOC JAPAN
DOI: 10.1248/cpb.56.227
Keywords
xanthoanthrafil; TLC; HPLC; liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry; NMR; penile erectile dysfunction
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We describe here the first case of the finding of xanthoanthrafil, a phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor, in a dietary supplement. A methanol extract of the supplement product was first analyzed by TLC and HPLC. The results indicated that the extract contained an unknown compound. The molecular weight of the compound was 389 and the accurate mass showed its elemental composition to be C19H23N3O6. Combined with this data, NMR analysis revealed the planar structure of the unknown compound to be N-(3,4-dimethoxybenzyl)-2-(1-hydroxypropan-2-ylamino)-5-nitrobenzamide. The R-configuration of this compound had been synthesized as a phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor, formerly reported as FR226807 by Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The absolute configuration of the isolated compound was estimated to have R-configuration by its optical rotation. Considering its general properties, this compound is renamed as (R)-xanthoanthrafil with the agreement of Astellas Pharma Inc. which is the successor of Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Quantitative analysis revealed that the content of (R)-xanthoanthrafil in the product was about 31 mg/capsule.
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