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Separation and determination of active components in Radix Salviae miltiorrhizae and its medicinal preparations by nonaqueous capillary electrophoresis
Author(s) -
Chen An Jia,
Zhang Ji You,
Li Cun Hong,
Chen Xiao Feng,
Hu Zhi De,
Chen Xing Guo
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of separation science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.72
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1615-9314
pISSN - 1615-9306
DOI - 10.1002/jssc.200301710
Subject(s) - radix (gastropod) , capillary electrophoresis , chromatography , chemistry , biology , botany
A nonaqueous capillary electrophoresis (NACE) method was developed for simultaneous assay of three bioactive components ( 1 : cryptotanshinone; 2 : tanshinone IIA, and 3 : tanshinone I) in Radix Salviae miltiorrhizae and in its herbal preparations for the first time. After optimization of separation conditions, a buffer of 250 mmol L –1 ammonium acetate containing 30% acetonitrile and 1.0% acetic acid ( V : V ) in methanol was selected for separating the three analytes, but baseline separation of tanshinon I and tanshinone IIA was not obtained. Therefore second‐order derivative electropherograms were applied for resolving overlapping peaks. Regression equations revealed good linear relationships (correlation coefficients 0.9943–0.9991) between peak heights in second‐order derivative electropherograms and concentrations of the three analytes. The relative standard deviations (RSD) of the migration times and the peak height of the three constituents were in the range of 0.81–0.88% and 0.34–1.13% (intra‐day), 1.57–1.86% and 3.05–5.52% (inter‐day), respectively. The recoveries of three constituents ranged from 90.2 to 108.5%. The results indicated that baseline separation of the analytes was sometimes hard to obtain and second‐order derivative electropherograms were applicable for the resolving and analysis of overlapping peaks.