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An effective high‐speed countercurrent chromatographic method for preparative isolation and purification of mollugin directly from the ethanol extract of the Chinese medicinal plant Rubia cordifolia
Author(s) -
Lu Yanbin,
Liu Rui,
Sun Cuirong,
Pan Yuanjiang
Publication year - 2007
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.200600440
Subject(s) - countercurrent chromatography , chemistry , chromatography , petroleum ether , diethyl ether , fraction (chemistry) , ethanol , solvent , countercurrent exchange , high performance liquid chromatography , extraction (chemistry) , organic chemistry , physics , thermodynamics
The medicinal plant Rubia cordifolia has been used widely in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for its antibacterial, antioxidant and anti‐inflammatory activities. In this study, a preparative high‐speed countercurrent chromatography (HSCCC) method for isolation and purification of the bioactive component mollugin directly from the ethanol extract of R. cordifolia was successfully established by using light petroleum (bp 60–90°C)/ethanol/diethyl ether/water as the two‐phase solvent system. The upper phase of light petroleum/ethanol/diethyl ether/water (5:4:3:1 v/v) was used as the stationary phase of HSCCC. Under the optimum conditions, 46 mg of mollugin at 98.5% purity, as determined by HPLC, could be yielded from 500 mg of the crude extract in a single HSCCC separation. The peak fraction of HSCCC was identified by 1 H NMR and 13 C NMR.