Improved method to obtain pfaffic acid as a marker for quality control

AUTOR(ES)

Rodrigues, Marili Villa Nova, Vedovello, Amanda, Rodrigues, Rodney Alexandre Ferreira, Montanari Junior, Ilio, Rehder, Vera Lucia Garcia

FONTE

Quím. Nova

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2013

RESUMO

Pfaffic acid, a marker of Hebanthe eriantha (Brazilian ginseng), was first isolated in 1983 but is not yet commercially available. This lack of availability compromises the quality control of this plant and its derivatives. This paper proposes a process for pfaffic acid isolation from roots of H. eriantha at a purity suitable for analytical purposes. The steps involved in this process included extraction, hydrolysis, fractionation and purification by preparative HPLC. This process led to isolation of pfaffic acid with a chromatographic purity of 98.5% in a 0.25% yield from dried roots of H. eriantha; this yield is more than forty times higher than that of the current method in the literature.

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