Isopimpinellin

About: Isopimpinellin is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 227 publications have been published within this topic receiving 4740 citations. The topic is also known as: 5,8-Dimethoxypsoralen & 5,8-Dimethoxypsoralene.

Matrix solid-phase dispersion versus ultrasound assisted extraction with solid-phase extraction in the HPLC analysis of furanocoumarins from fruits of Archangelica officinalis Hoffm

Abstract: In this study an efficient matrix solid-phase dispersion (MSPD) method for the simultaneous HPLC analysis of furanocoumarins from fruits of Archangelica officinalis Hoffm. was performed. Herbal samples were prepared by an optimized MSPD procedure using C18 as sorbent. The analysis was performed by high performance liquid chromatography with diode array detector (HPLC-DAD). The efficiency of the MSPD method was also compared with ultrasound assisted extraction with solid-phase extraction (USAE with SPE). The MSPD extracted furanocoumarins (isoimperatorin, imperatorin, bergapten, isopimpinellin, xanthotoxin, umbelliferone and xanthotoxol) from Archangelica officinalis with satisfactory recoveries ranging from 91.43% to 96.07% and relative standard deviations lower than 4.34%. The detection limit of various furanocoumarins was found to be in the range of 0.37 mg mL-1 for xanthotoxol to 10.82 mg mL-1 for imperatorin. The results presented in the paper reveal that MSPD is efficient, fast, simple and easy to perform method suitable for the isolation of furanocoumarins from herbs.

Two Coumarins with Safener Activity from Rhizoma et Radix Notopterygii

Abstract: Rhizoma et Radix Notopterygii is often used as a traditional medicine in China. In our recent work, we found that the ethanol crude extract of Rhizoma et Radix Notopterygii could reduce phytotoxicity of acetochlor on rice. The crude extract of Rhizoma et Radix Notopterygii was isolated and purified by activity-guided fractionation. Two coumarins, isopimpinellin and 5-methoxypsoralen (5-MOP) were identified, and their bioactivity was tested in a growth chamber. The results showed that the two coumarins increased herbicide tolerance of rice shoots, and 5-MOP demonstrated better protection than isopimpinellin. The treatment of 5-MOP at 50 g ai ha−1 recovered the shoot height of rice from 42.6% (treated with acetochlor only) to 81.6% of the control treated without acetochlor, whereas the phytocidal activity of acetochlor on barnyardgrass was not impaired by 5-MOP. Further study suggested that 5-MOP increases herbicide tolerance of rice by enhancing the glutathione S-transferase level of activity in r...

[Coumarins from Leonurus japonicus and their anti-platelet aggregative activity].

Abstract: Chemical constituents of Leonurus japonicus were isolated and purified by a combination of various chromatographic techniques including column chromatography over silica gel, Sephadex LH-20, MCI, and Rp C18. Structures of the isolates were determined by spectroscopic analysis as 10 coumarins: bergapten (1), xanthotoxin (2), isopimpinellin (3), isogosferal (4), imperatorin (5), meransin hydrate(6), isomeranzin(7), murrayone(8) , auraptenol(9), and osthol(10). In addition to compound 9, the others were isolated from the genus Leonurus for the first time. In the in vitro assay, compounds 4 and 8 significantly inhibited the abnormal increase of platelet aggregation induced by ADP.