High-speed counter-current chromatography of apple procyanidins
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Published on: April 26, 2016
Y Shibusawa1, A Yanagida, A Ito
1Department of Analytical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science, Hachioji, Japan.
Abstract:
Apple procyanidins were separated by high-speed counter-current chromatography using a type-J multilayer coil planet centrifuge. Several two-phase solvent systems with a wide range of hydrophobicities from a non-polar hexane system to polar n-butanol systems were evaluated their performance in terms of the partition coefficient and the retention of the phase. The best separation of procyanidins B and C was achieved with a two-phase solvent system composed of n-butanol-methyl tert.-butyl ether-acetonitrile-0.1% trifluoroacetic acid (2:4:3:8) using the lower phase as a mobile at a flow-rate of 1.0 ml/min.
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