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pH‐Zone‐refining centrifugal partition chromatography for preparative isolation and purification of steroidal glycoalkaloids from Solanum xanthocarpum
Author(s) -
Maurya Anupam,
Gupta Shalini,
Negi Suroochi,
Srivastava Santosh Kumar
Publication year - 2009
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.200900323
Subject(s) - chemistry , chromatography , triethylamine , ethyl acetate , countercurrent chromatography , solvent , high performance liquid chromatography , organic chemistry
pH‐Zone‐refining centrifugal‐partition chromatography (CPC) was successfully applied in the separation of complex polar steroidal glycoalkaloids of close Rf values, directly from a crude extract of Solanum xanthocarpum . The experiment was performed with a two phase solvent system composed of ethyl acetate/butanol/water (1:4:5 by volume) where triethylamine (5 mM) was added to the upper organic mobile phase as an eluter and TFA (10 mM) to the aqueous stationary phase as a retainer. Separation of 1 g of crude extract over CPC resulted in two distinct pH‐zones. The fractions collected in pH‐zone i afforded 72 mg of solasonine while the fractions collected in pH‐zone ii were slightly impure, hence were purified over medium pressure LC, which afforded 30 mg of solasonine and further 15 mg of solamargine (SM). The steroidal glycoalkaloids, SM and solasonine were isolated in 93.3 and 91.6% purity, respectively. The isolated alkaloids were characterized on the basis of their 1 H, 13 C‐NMR, and ESI‐MS data.