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The Rapid Discrimination and Quality Assessment of Three Zanthoxylum Species Using 1H NMR Spectrometry
Hyeon Seok Jang1, Birang Jeong1, Seong Yeon Choi1
1College of Pharmacy, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
The husks and fruits of Zanthoxylum species (Rutaceae) are the popular pungent and spicy ingredients of foods and the traditional medicines in many countries. Three Zanthoxylum species, Z. bungeanum, Z. schinifolium, and Z. piperitum, are distributed and intermixed with each other as "Zanthoxyli Pericarpium" in Korean markets. In the present study, we analyzed the ethyl acetate-soluble and nonpolar fractions of Zanthoxylum samples by 1H NMR spectrometry and performed a multivariate analysis for finding the discriminant markers between three species. Xanthoxylin was identified as the metabolic marker for the discrimination of Zanthoxylum species and quantified by the qNMR approach.
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