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Chemometric analysis of ESIMS and NMR data from Piper species

 

 

Lydia F. Yamaguchi^I; Giovana C. Freitas^I; Nidia C. Yoshida^I; Renata A. Silva^I; Anderson M. Gaia^I; Adalberto M. Silva^I; Marcus T. Scotti^II; Vicente de P. Emerenciano^I; Elsie F. Guimarães^III; Eny I. S. Floh^IV; Carlos A. Colombo^V; Walter J. Siqueira^V; Massuo J. Kato^{I, *}

^IDepartamento de Química Fundamental, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, 05508-000 São Paulo-SP, Brazil
^IICentro de Ciências Aplicadas e Educação (Campus IV), Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 58297-000 Rio Tinto-PB, Brazil
^IIIInstituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Jardim Botânico, 1008, 22460-070 Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil
^IVDepartamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Rua do Matão, 277, 05422-970 São Paulo-SP, Brazil
^VCentro de Genética Biologia Molecular e Fitoquímica, Instituto Agronômico de Campinas, Av. Barão de Itapura, 1481, 13001-970 Campinas-SP, Brazil

 

 

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ABSTRACT

The metabolomic profiling based on the application of multivariate analysis (principal component analysis, PCA) of positive mode electrospray ionization mass spectrometric (ESIMS) and ¹H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data of crude extracts highlighted some species characterized by lignans (P. solmsianum, P. truncatum and P. cernuum), neolignans (P. regnellii) and chromenes (P. gaudichaudianum). A specific analysis focusing on species having pendant and globular inflorescences (P. caldense, P. carniconnectivum, P. bowiei and P. permucronatum) or amides-producing species indicated higher potential of the methodology in determining similarities and establishing priorities for further phytochemical investigation. Such intraspecific analysis applied to analyzed seedling leaves of the P. solmsianum, P. regnellii and P. gaudichaudianum species revealed the production of dillapiole and apiole instead of lignans, neolignans or prenylated benzoic acid, produced by the adult leaves, respectively. In case of amides-producing species, a similar profile was observed regardless the developmental stage.

Keywords: Piperaceae, principal component analysis, secondary metabolites, fingerprinting

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RESUMO

O perfil metabólito baseado na aplicação de análises multivariadas (análise de componentes principais, PCA) dos dados de espectrometria de massas com ionização electrospray (ESIMS) no modo positivo e de ressonância magnética nuclear (RMN) do ¹H de extratos brutos de espécies de Piper destacou algumas espécies caracterizadas pela produção de lignanas (P. solmsianum, P. truncatum e P. cernuum), neolignanas (P. regnellii) e cromenos (P. gaudichaudianum). Análises específicas em conjunto de espécies caracterizadas morfologicamente por apresentarem inflorescências pêndulas e globosas (P. caldense, P. carniconnectivum, P. bowiei e P. permucronatum) ou em espécies que produzem amidas indicaram o potencial mais significativo para tais análises como critério para estudos fitoquímicos posteriores. Análises intraespecíficas de plântulas das espécies P. solmsianum, P. regnellii e P. gaudichaudianum indicaram uma composição química nas folhas baseada na presença dos fenilpropanóides dilapiol e apiol, diferentemente do que produzem as plantas adultas. No caso das espécies que produzem amidas, a composição apresentou-se relativamente constante independentemente do estágio de desenvolvimento.

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Introduction

The knowledge on secondary chemistry of tropical plant species is limited to approximately 5-10% of the total species described so far. In fact, this limited study indicates the potential for finding novel lead compounds from tropical biodiversity. Despite the availability of high throughput technology platforms to detect bioactive compounds, the process of cataloguing their composition possesses a significant challenge since it still involves largely the isolation  and spectroscopic characterization of individual components. Additionally, the determination of a more complete profile in terms of secondary compounds in a given species is not a simple task since it should also be considered all organs, tissues, different developmental stages  and populational analysis of species as potential sources of material to be further analyses. To make the process even more complex, further variability of chemical composition can be caused by stress and/or responses resulting from interaction of plants with associated flora  and fauna or other types of stimuli.¹

The metabolome represents the collection of all metabolites in a given level of organization of an organism, which are the products of cellular processes. The metabolomic analysis has become an increasingly important approach due to its potential applications in drug discovery, functional genomics of plants, food science  and human nutrition.^2-5 In addition, the metabolomic analysis at specific times throughout the development of tissues or organs can provide information on biosynthetic sites  and dynamics of the metabolites. Currently, various experimental techniques have been routinely applied to metabolomic analysis including gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GCMS), ¹H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESIMS), high performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (HPLCMS), center for environmental mass spectrometry (CEMS) or a combination of them.^6-12 Since the generated data are very large  and complex for interpreting, the principal component analysis (PCA) has been frequently used to analyze all types of matrices because the method is capable of extracting relevant information from large collection of samples having large number of variables which together make the manual analysis virtually impossible.^13-15

Piperaceae species are very common in the tropics with ca. 3000 species among which Peperomia  and Piper are the most abundant. Some of them, such as P. nigrum L. (black pepper)  and P. methysticum G. Forst (kava-kava) are well-known for their commercial  and sociocultural uses. Peperomia species are well-known as ornamental plants, although several of them are mentioned as medicinal. In terms of ecological importance, Piper species have been considered as model due to the richness of species  and diversity of interactions with herbivores.^16-21 In general, Piperaceae species can be easily propagated  and the availability of data on taxonomy, molecular phylogeny, ecology and chemical composition provides the basis for multidisciplinary studies.

Most of the phytochemical investigation has been addressed to determine major bioactive secondary metabolites  and thus, Piperaceae species have shown to produce amides, pyrones, chromenes  and lignoids.^22-28 Several Piper species are pioneer,  and can be found in forest borders  and for such reason they are also under risk of depletion by anthropic activities. Thus, the preservation of germplasm is highly desirable but the development of methodology for analyzing  and recording the chemical profile of large number of species is also urgently required. So far, the methodology based on GCMS was applied to analyze Piperaceae species for determining the composition of essential oils^29-33  and amides.³⁴ Besides, HPLC  and LCMS were applied for isolating  and identifying unsaturated amides.³⁵ Thus, the primary aim of this work was to explore the application of ESIMS  and NMR combined with PCA to analyze crude extracts of Piper species in order to determine chemical variability among species  and also to establish priorities for phytochemical investigations.

 

Results and Discussion

Secondary metabolite profiling

The Piper species for the chemical profiling studies have been collected in the past five years in different sites (Table 1). The analysis of constituents in crude extracts was initially performed on ¹H NMR (300 MHz) (Figure S1 from Supplementary Information, SI)  and ESIMS data (Schemes 1-3). The analysis of a set of samples by ¹H NMR considered the region between d 9.0-3.0, excluding the intense peaks resulting from the ubiquitous presence of fatty material. Initial score plot (PC1 vs. PC2) of ¹H NMR data revealed a remarkable differentiation of Piper solmsianum C. DC. individuals (K-487A-F) as outliers of the remaining species, which clustered in the center of the score plot (Figure 1). The corresponding loading plot (Figure 2) revealed that the major contribution for such leverage was due to the high intensity of methoxyl signals (d 3.88  and 3.84) resulting from the lignan grandisin (5).³⁶ In this particular case, the ¹H NMR spectrum indicated that the crude extracts of K-487D contained almost exclusively grandisin (Figure 1). Other specimens of P. solmsianum (K-487A-C, E-F) differing from K-487D appeared together P. truncatum Vell., P. hispidum Sw., P. regnellii (Miq.) C. DC.  and P. cernuum Vell. The inspection of the ¹H NMR spectra of the extracts from P. solmsianum specimens (K-487A-C, E-F) revealed the presence of the phenylpropanoid isoelemicin (3) in addition to grandisin, as confirmed by HPLC-ESIMS analysis. Such chemical variability within the P. solmsianum species suggested more detailed investigation of the ¹H NMR data. Thus, samples of P. regnellii (with exception of sample D) were characterized by the presence dihydrobenzofuran neolignans conocarpan (6)  and eupomatenoid (7).⁵³ The set of species including P. richardiaefolium Kunth, P. truncatum, P. pseudopothifolium C. DC.  and P. cernuum belonging to the clade Macrostachys⁵⁷ is characterized by the production of furofuran lignans, such as eudesmin (8a), sesamin (8b), dibenzylbutyrolactone hinokinin (9a), kusunokinin (9b), arctigenin (9c)  and dibenzylbutyrolactols derivatives (10a, 10b)⁴² (Table 1). Nevertheless, only few accesses were differentiated out of the major clustering, in the PCA score plot, indicating a possible chemical variability in this clade  and that some similarities of signals corresponding to aromatic hydrogens  and methoxyl groups may have caused grouping with P. solmsianum, P. hispidum  and P. regnellii. Next, the attempt to get higher resolution among species by removal of the outlier group of species was hampered by the lack of clustering. In order to examine the application of an alternative technique, the ESIMS obtained by direct infusion was evaluated to analyze the extracts from Piper species. All extracts were analyzed under the positive mode (see Experimental section). The score plot of ESIMS data provided similar results to the case of using ¹H NMR with differentiation of the same outlier group of species. Preliminary conclusions regarding the application of metabolome analysis to a large  and heterogeneous collection of Piper extracts indicated that this kind of unsupervised analysis should be restricted to a limited group of species or to analyze members of a given population.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thus, based on the initial conclusion above mentioned, the methodology was next applied to investigate a specific set of samples of different organs belonging to the clade Peltrobryon (Table 2), such as P. caldense C. DC. collected in different sites (K-484, K-842  and K-951),  and also P. bowiei Yunck. (K-364), P. permucronatum Yunck. (K-310  and K-1022)  and P. carniconnectivum C. DC. (K-963, K-976, K-978, K-991  and K-989). All these four Piper species have in common relatively large  and pendant fruits. Previous chemical studies carried out on roots  and leaves of P. caldense revealed an aristolactam⁵⁸  and a prenylated benzoic acid (caldensinic acid 15)⁴¹ as major compounds, while for P. carniconnectivum, the composition of essential oil, a flavonoid  and cyclopentenediones were reported.^59-61 The P. permucronatum species had only its essential oil described,⁶² while P. bowiei has no previous phytochemical study. The analysis carried out using ESIMS of crude extracts combined with PCA provided better differentiation among three groups of samples than using the ¹H NMR data (Figures 3  and S2 from SI). The P. bowiei (K-364), P. permucronatum (K-310  and K-1022) species were closely related but distinguished from P. caldense (K-484, K-842  and K-951), while P. carniconnectivum showed some chemical variability in spite of few samples analyzed. In order to characterize these groups of species, the major compounds were isolated  and spectroscopically analyzed (see Experimental section). Thus, the two samples of P. caldense (K-842  and K-951) were consistently characterized by the caldensinic acid (15) as previously isolated. Samples from P. carniconnectivum (K-991, K-976, K-978  and K-989) were more distant from the first species due to the compound with a quasi-molecular ion at [M + H]⁺ of 335 (Figure S2), whose structure is under investigation. Finally, the P. bowiei (K-364)  and P. permucronatum (K-310  and K-1022) species were characterized by the isomeric flavanones having the same quasi-molecular ion at [M + H]⁺ 287  and corresponded to dihydrowogonin (18)  and sakuranetin (17a), respectively (see Experimental section). The analysis of this set of samples by HPLC-UV displayed distinct chromatographic profiles (data not shown),  and the visualization of some patterns using PCA analysis should be expected if retention time is used as variable. However, the two species (P. bowiei  and P. permucronatum) closely clustered in the score plot of ESIMS data because of the same molecular ion that is provided by the isomeric flavanones.

 

 

 

 

Next, the application of PCA analysis based on the ESIMS data was evaluated to examine the extracts from amide-accumulating species including P. tuberculatum L., P. peltatum L., P. scutifolium Yunck., P. reticulatum L.  and P. amalago L. The phylogenetic relationship is supported by floral morphology or ITS (internal transcribed spacer) sequences^57,63  and partially by previous phytochemical data. To date, the chemistry of P. amalago is represented by several amides including nigrinodine (28)^34,39  and terpenes,^64-66 while for a specimen of P. reticulatum from Trinidad  and Tobago, two aliphatic pyrones  and amide dihydrowisanidine (23a) were described.⁵⁷ The score plot (PC1 vs. PC2) of ESIMS data characterizes the species according to the presence of piplartine (20a) (P. tuberculatum)⁴⁸  and piperovatine (25) (P. scutifolium  and P. peltatum)⁴³ (Figures 4  and  S3 from SI). The P. miquelianum C.DC. species has no report on chemical composition  and studies for its detailed composition, being still required. The sample of P. amalago contains the amide nigrinodine (28), as previously described.⁶¹ The pyrones previously described for P. reticulatum were not detected in an attempt to dereplicate the extracts from a specimen collected in Carajás City (Pará State, Brazil) using ESIMS data. Nevertheless, the analysis of loading plot of ESIMS data indicated the fragmentary ions at m/z 165  and 135 instead of those accounted for pyrones in the previous analysis. In order to characterize the compounds responsible for such ions, part of the leaves that were extracted from P. reticulatum was fractionated leading to the isolation  and characterization of the amides dihydrowisanidine (23a)  and wisanidine (23b), the compounds yielding the two fragmentary ions, respectively. In spite of the chemical variability noticed for P. reticulatum, such type of comparison should involve more detailed  and appropriate samplings, not to mention the genetic variability studies to account for these differences.

 

 

Seedling chemistry in Piper species

In general, the phytochemical investigation has been carried out on adult plants, especially in bioprospecting studies which often require significant amount of material  and pure compounds. Comparatively, seedling chemistry is essentially unknown  and only few reports were addressed to determine major compounds such as in seedlings of Betula,⁶⁷ Virola,⁶⁸ Piper⁶⁹  and Pilocarpus⁷⁰ species. Based on such scarcity of data  and considering the implication of seedling chemistry in successional ecology  and restoration process, four Piper species (P. regnellii, P. solmsianum, P. gaudichaudianum, P. tuberculatum  and P. amalago) were examined as compared to adult plants. The seedlings were cultivated under greenhouse  and maintained under the same substrate  and conditions. Seedling leaves at approximate age of 6 months were analyzed by ESIMS in order to compare with the adult leaves. The score plot of ESIMS data revealed a remarkable difference between leaves from adult plants  and seedlings of P. solmsianum, P. regnellii  and P. gaudichaudianum (Figure 5). Further analysis using ¹H NMR  and HPLC characterized the phenylpropanoids dillapiole (4a)  and apiole (4b) as major constituents. This profile is quite contrasting with the adult organs of respective species, which consistently contain the lignan grandisin (4),³⁶ neolignan conocarpan  and derivatives (6, 7)⁵³  and chromenes (11a-11b),⁴⁹ respectively. The phenylpropanoids dillapiole  and apiole are the major constituents in essential oil from leaves of P. aduncum L.,⁷¹ but further compounds also include chromenes^37,72  and chalcones.⁷³ In this specific case, its seedlings also contain dillapiole  and apiole as major compounds. On the other hand, the adults  and seedling leaves of amide-containing P. tuberculatum  and P. amalago species were not distinguished between different developmental stages  and their composition were based on amides piplartine (20a)⁴⁸  and nigrinodine (28),⁶¹ respectively. The ESIMS analysis of seedling extracts of P. reticulatum indicated differences among leaves from samples collected at Carajás City, cultivated at Instituto de Química (Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo City)  and also from P. amalago. Although the seedlings of P. reticulatum contained the amides wisanidine (23b)  and dihydrowisanidine (23a). Thus, this compound was isolated  and fully characterized by the interpretation of 2D NMR as the benzonitrile benzoate (29). This cyanohydrin was previously isolated from Malania oleifera Chun & Lee (Olacaceae)⁷⁴  and was also described as constituent of defensive secretions of various millipedes species,⁷⁵ but as far as we known this is the first report for Piperaceae species.

 

 

Conclusions

The non-targeted profiling of secondary metabolites for Piper species was carried out in order to determine the major classes of compounds by means of ¹H NMR  and ESIMS data of crude extracts. The PCA score plot based on ¹H NMR or ESIMS data showed a distinction of some lignoid-containing species including the varieties of P. solmsianum, P. truncatum  and P. regnellii  and also a chromene-containing P. hispidum species. The sequential removal of these outlier species still allowed some differentiation in some extent using ¹H NMR data but was not enough to provide visible clustering or to clarify chemical similarities among the samples. Nevertheless, the methodology was proven to be valuable when applied to analyze selected set of plant species with specific morphological characteristics such as those having pendant inflorescences (P. caldense, P. carniconnectivum, P. bowiei  and P. permucronatum) belonging to the clade Peltrobryon or to individuals, varieties, organs or different developmental stages as in case of seedlings. Analysis of set of samples by HPLC-UV was also proven to be useful but when combined with ESIMS provides robustness for identification of compounds overcoming the reproducibility limitations based solely on retention time.

The overall analysis of a collection of plant species has only been possible due to the capacity of handling a large number of samples  and the corresponding data set generated. Nevertheless, even with the use of high resolution mass spectrometers or high field NMR techniques, the precise determination of structures of secondary compounds in an organism remains one of the major challenges when a complete characterization of the species based on secondary metabolites is concerned.

 

Experimental

Plant material

Piper species (Table 1) were collected in different sites between 2005-2010. The sampling of plant species was carried out under the permit from Instituto Florestal (SMA No. 40.272/2006), Sisbio/MMA (No. 15780-1)  and Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis (IBAMA, 06/08). The botanical classification was carried out by Dra. Elsie Franklin Guimarães (Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)  and the vouchers were deposited in this Herbarium (Table 1).

Extract preparations for PCA analysis

For the PCA analysis, dried  and powdered leaves (2.0 g) of the species were successively extracted with MeOH (2 × 10 mL) at room temperature. The extracts were filtered  and concentrated in vacuum to afford the crude MeOH extracts.

ESIMS analysis for PCA analysis

The ESIMS analyses were performed in a Quattro II triple quadrupole equipment (Micromass, Manchester, UK). The samples were prepared using the crude extract dissolved in MeOH in a concentration of 1 mg mL^-1. The electrospray positive ionization mode was employed with capillary voltage of 4.5 kV, skimmer 50 V  and the nitrogen gas flows of 250  and 30 L h^-1. Samples were directly injected to MS using mobile phase flow of 50 mL min^-1 (MeOH:H₂O/1:1), data were processed by MassLynx (Micromass) version 3.2 (1998).

¹H NMR analysis for PCA analysis

Samples for NMR analysis were prepared using 20 mg of MeOH extract, dissolved in 800 µL of CDCl₃ (99.8% Cambridge Isotopes Laboratories^TM) containing 0.05% of TMS (tetramethylsilane). The ¹H NMR spectra were performed on a Bruker DPX 300 MHz operating at a proton NMR frequency 300.13 MHz  and a 5 mm probe. Each spectrum consisted of 256 scans and 300 k data point, with a pulse width of 8.0 µs (30º)  and relaxation delay of 2.0 s.

Data analysis

The spectra were automatically Fourier transformed with a line broadening of 0.3 Hz by the program MestReC (version 4.8.6.0, MestreLab, 1996),  and referenced to residual hydrogen signal CDCl₃ at 7.26 ppm using TMS as an internal standard. Spectra signals were integrated in regions of equal width (0.04 ppm) corresponding to the region d 3.00-9.00. The integrals were obtained for each of the 221 regions  and regions containing TMS (0 to 0.4 ppm), residues of chloroform (7.0 to 7.4 ppm) were excluded from each spectrum.

Seedlings

Seeds of P. regnellii, P. solmsianum, P. gaudichaudianum  and P. tuberculatum were collected in the greenhouse of Instituto de Química (USP)  and germinated at 27 ± 2 ºC under 16 h photoperiod (35  mmol m^-2 s^-1, 85 W cool-white fluorescent lamps). Seedlings of approximately 6 months age had their leaves extracted  and analyzed by ESIMS.

Analysis by PCA

The ¹H NMR  and ESIMS data were exported in ASCII format to Microsoft Excel to produce a data matrix of sample versus metabolite peak/mass with associated peak/mass areas, prior to further principal component analysis using the Unscrambler software version 9.5 (CAMO Process AS, Norway, 1996-2007). The normalization process of the raw data, which consisted of making the area under each curve the same for all spectra, was carried out to avoid possible lack of reproducibility associated to dilution effects  and responses of the mass detector.

Isolation general experimental procedures

Silica gel (Merck 230-400 mesh) and reversed phase silica C₁₈ (Waters, 125 Å, 55-105 mm) were used for column chromatographic separation while silica gel 60 PF254 (Merck) was used for analytical (0.25 mm) and prep-thin layer chromatograph (TLC) (1.0 mm). Analytical HPLC was performed using a Shimadzu chromatograph model SCL-10A with UV-Vis detector (model SPD-M10A) and C₁₈ column (250 mm × 5 mm, 5 mm), methanol (B) and water (A) were used as mobile phase. Samples of extracts were dissolved in MeOH:H₂O (90%) at a concentration of 1 mg mL^-1, cleaned up through Sep-pack C₁₈ and submitted to HPLC-PDA-ESIMS analysis.

¹HNMR spectra were recorded at 300  and 500 MHz  and ¹³C NMR at 75  and 125 MHz in Bruker DPX-300  and DPX-500 spectrometers. CDCl₃  and CD₃OD (Cambridge Isotope) containing 0.05% of TMS as internal standard were applied. Chemical shifts are reported in d units (ppm)  and coupling constants (J) in Hz. HREIMS were obtained on a Bruker Daltonics MicroTOF mass spectrometer. LREIMS (low resolution electron impact-mass spectrometry) data were acquired in a HP 5990/5988A mass spectrometer,  and GCLREIMS (gas chromatography electron impact-mass spectrometry) data were acquired in a Shimadzu GC-17A chromatograph interfaced with a MS-QP-5050A mass spectrometer.

Extraction  andisolation of constituents from P. richardiaefolium

Dried leaves (68.0 g) were extracted three times for 24 h with EtOAc yielding 8.0 g of crude extract. The extract of leaves was dissolved in MeOH:H₂O (20%), filtrated on a Celite bed  and the filtered solution extracted with dichloromethane. The organic fraction was dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate  and then, the solvents were evaporated under vacuum to yield 2.5 g. This fraction was subjected to a vacuum liquid chromatography (VLC) using silica gel eluted with a gradient of hexane  and EtOAc resulting in 19 fractions. Fraction 5 was subjected to prep-TLC eluted with hexane:EtOAc (20%) yielding sesamin (8b)⁷⁶  and hinokinin (9a).⁷⁷ Fractions 9-12 yielded kobusin (8c, 23 mg),⁵⁴ kusunokinin (9b, 11 mg)⁷⁷  and cubebin (10a, 85 mg).⁶⁸ Fractions 15-19 were submitted to prep-TLC yielding 3',4'-dimethoxy-3,4-demethylenedioxycubebin (10b, 6 mg)⁷⁶  and arctigenin (9c, 18 mg).⁷⁸

Extraction  andisolation of constituents from P. reticulatum

Dried  and powdered leaves of P. reticulatum (100 g) were extracted with EtOAc two times, during two days, at room temperature. Part of the extract (3 g) was subjected to flash silica gel column chromatography eluted with n-hexane containing increasing amounts of EtOAc (up to 100%), to give 11 fractions. Fraction 5 (126 mg) was purified by silica gel preparative TLC (hexane-EtOAc, 7:3, two elutions) affording cyanobenzyl benzoate (29, 8 mg). Fraction 11 (250 mg) was fractionated by VLC reversed phase eluted with water  andincreasing amounts of MeOH (up to 100%), yielding 9 fractions. Fraction 1 (33 mg) was purified by silica gel preparative TLC (CH₂Cl₂-MeOH, 9.5:0.5, two elutions) affording dihydrowisanidine (23a),⁷⁹ which was the major compound.

Extraction  andisolation of constituents from P. bowiei  andP. permucronatum

Dried  and powdered leaves of P. bowiei (12 g)  and P. permucronatum (10 g) were extracted with EtOAc (2 × 500 mL) at room temperature. The extracts were filtered  and concentrated in vacuum to afford the crude extracts. The P. bowiei extract (1.65 g) was subjected to VLC on silica gel eluted with gradient mixtures of n-hexane/EtOAc  and EtOAc/MeOH to afford 14 fractions. The fraction 5 (400 mg) was subjected to separation on Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography eluted with MeOH to afford a pure flavanone (18), identified as dihydrowogonin (5,7-dihydroxy-8-methoxyflavanone), the EIMS, ¹H  and ¹³C NMR data were identical to that described.⁷⁰

The P. permucronatum extract (1.62 g) was subjected to VLC on silica gel eluted with gradient mixtures of n-hexane/EtOAc  and EtOAc/MeOH to afford 16 fractions. The fraction 9 (230 mg) was subjected to separation on Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography eluted with MeOH to afford a pure flavanone, identified as sakuranetin (17a) (5,4'-dihydroxy-7-methoxyflavanone), the EIMS, ¹H  and ¹³C NMR data were identical to that described.⁷⁰

 

Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge IBAMA  and Vale do Rio Doce for permission to collect plant material at Floresta Nacional (FLONA) de Carajás  and to Prof. Paolo Di Mascio for ESIMS facility  and to Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)  and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) for providing research funding.

 

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Submitted: September 5, 2011
Published online: December 6, 2011
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