Using UHPLC-MS Profiling for the Discovery of New Dihydro-β-Agarofurans from Australian Celastraceae Plant Extracts

oleh: Mario Wibowo, Paul I. Forster, Gordon P. Guymer, Andreas Hofmann, Rohan A. Davis

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: MDPI AG 2019-02-01

Deskripsi

An analytical method using UHPLC-MS was developed and applied to 16 crude CH<sub>2</sub>Cl<sub>2</sub> extracts from Australian Celastraceae plants; the endemic plant materials were accessed from Griffith University&#8217;s NatureBank resource and included bark, fruit, leaf, root, twig and mixed samples, all of which were collected from Queensland, Australia. The generated UHPLC-MS data were analysed and dereplicated using the scientific databases Dictionary of Natural Products and SciFinder Scholar in order to potentially identify new dihydro-&#946;-agarofurans from local Celastraceae plants. These investigations led to the large-scale extraction and isolation work on a prioritised fruit sample that belonged to the rainforest plant <i>Denhamia celastroides</i>. Chemical investigations resulted in the purification of four new natural products, denhaminols O&#8315;R (<b>1</b>&#8315;<b>4</b>), along with the related and known compound, denhaminol G (<b>5</b>). The structures of all the new compounds were determined via detailed analysis of NMR and MS data.