Application of capillary-scale NMR for the structure determination of phytochemicals

Phytochem Anal. 2005 Mar-Apr;16(2):127-33. doi: 10.1002/pca.831.

Abstract

Employing a capillary-scale NMR probe enables the miniaturisation of structure determination and de-replication of purified natural products from plants using only 5-100 microg of material. Approximately 5 microg are required to perform one-dimensional proton and two-dimensional homonuclear (COSY and NOESY) NMR experiments; some 30 microg are needed to acquire HMQC- or HSQC-NMR spectra; ca. 75-100 microg are necessary to measure HMBC-NMR spectra; and around 200 microg of a compound are needed to perform 13C- and DEPT-NMR experiments. In order to illustrate the integration of the outputs from high-throughput natural product chemistry methods with the capabilities of the state-of-the-art CapNMR technology, the preparation of a natural product library from the extract of Penstemon centranthifolius, and the subsequent isolation, purification and structure determination of six known iridoid glycosides with 25-300 microg of material are presented.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Glycosides / chemistry
  • Glycosides / isolation & purification
  • Iridoids / chemistry*
  • Iridoids / isolation & purification
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / methods*
  • Miniaturization / methods*
  • Molecular Structure
  • Penstemon / chemistry*

Substances

  • Glycosides
  • Iridoids