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Matthew Gronquist1, Jerrold Meinwald, Thomas Eisner
1Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Cortland, Cortland, NY 13045, USA.
Abstract:
Capillary NMR spectroscopy (CapNMR) was used to characterize 13 new cardenolides and related steroids from a severely mass-limited natural products sample derived from a rare firefly, Lucidota atra. These analyses were carried out on only partially purified samples, each containing 20-100 mug of up to three steroids. Compared to other NMR spectroscopic techniques, CapNMR provided an up to 3-fold gain in sensitivity while maintaining very high spectral quality, which was essential for the identification of the L. atra steroids. We show that CapNMR allows for routine 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopic characterization of small molecule samples containing as little as 40 nmol of material.
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