Open AccessCHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF MEDICINAL EXTRACTS (SAPONARIA OF-FICINALIS L.)
Author(s) -
Галина Батоевна Ендонова,
Т. П. Анцупова,
Сысыгма Дашиевна Жамсаранова
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
himiâ rastitelʹnogo syrʹâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 1029-5151
pISSN - 1029-5143
DOI - 10.14258/jcprm.2018012735
Subject(s) - chemistry , officinalis , glycoside , antioxidant , botany , food science , traditional medicine , biochemistry , biology , organic chemistry , medicine
The paper presents new data on chemical composition and antioxidant properties in extracts of the aerial organs of Saponaria officinalis growing on the territory of the Republic of Buryatia. It was revealed that soapberry leaves extracts contain a number of organic acids such as oxalic, formic, fumaric, succinic, malic, citric, and benzoic ones, the dominant being formic, malic, acetic and citric acids. Of vitamins B2, B3. BC extracted from the plant the dominant one was riboflavin. The method of and Fthigh-performance liquid chromatography helped to reveal five compounds identified as aglycone and glycosidic in character. They are orientin, isoeryentin, isovitinexin-7-О-glycoside, orientin-7-О-glycoside, of which isovitoxin is dominant. The greatest total antioxidant activity was demonstrated by soapberry leaves and inflorescences picked up on abandoned sites of the village of Selenginsk. Extractions from Saponaria officinalis leaves showed showed antiradical and Fe2+-chelating activity comparable to that of the extractions from plants with pronounced antioxidant activity. Thus, the data obtained indicated the antioxidant activity of S.officinalis aqueous extracts due to the presence of natural flavonoids. This fact shows the plant as a promising new source of antioxidants.