New “hyphenated” CPC-HPLC-DAD-MS strategy for simultaneous isolation, analysis and identification of phytochemicals: application to xanthones from Garcinia mangostana

Centrifugal partition chromatography (CPC) coupled online with high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with diode-array detection (DAD) and mass spectrometry (MS) is presented in this work. This strategy offers the possibility to obtain simultaneously CPC fractionation of natural extracts, the HPLC fingerprint of separated fractions and structural information on molecules contained in each fraction. This new approach was applied to the fractionation and purification of xanthones from Garcinia mangostana (Clusiaceae) pericarp. A biphasic solvent system of heptane/ethyl acetate/methanol/water (2:1:2:1, v/v) was used for the CPC separation of 175?mg crude ethanolic extract. The HPLC analysis was conducted with a reversed-phase monolithic column allowing fast and repeatable separation. This combined CPC-HPLC-DAD-MS method led to isolation of 33?mg α-mangostin and 6?mg γ-mangostin at 98?% and 98.5?% purity, respectively, in 140?min. Furthermore, in the same time a total of 16 other xanthones were detected in the extract, and ten of them were identified on the basis of their UV and MS spectra.     

Comment on “Persistent Room-Temperature Radicals from Anionic Naphthalimides: Spin Pairing and Supramolecular Chemistry” and on “Persistent Radical Pairs between N-Substituted Naphthalimide and Carbanion Exhibit pKa-Dependent UV/Vis Absorption”

EPR spectroscopic evidence for intramolecular electron transfer in anionic N-substituted naphthalimides to yield persistent diradical anions and intermolecular electron transfer from a variety of carbanions to 6-bromo-N-phenyl-naphthalimide to yield persistent radical–radical anion pairs was recently claimed in two papers by Zhang et al. In this comment, it is shown that the EPR spectra published in both papers do not agree with the proposed triplet-state species. Rather, the spectra are due to various doublet-state radicals, deriving from minor side reactions. The misinterpretations invalidate the general conclusions of the papers.     

IV School Conference for Young Scientists “Supramolecular Strategies in Chemistry,Biology, and Medicine: Fundamental Problems and Perspectives” (with international participation)

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Comment on “the specific production of NO(B2IIr) from the recombination of no on a nickel surface” by Caubet,Dearden and Dorthe

This note calls attention to mathematical and conceptual errors that could lead to a broadened interpretation of the data reported.     

A multidentate ligand based on two triazole groups from “click chemistry” and its copper(II) and iron(II) complexes: synthesis,structure, and electrochemistry

A multidentate ligand, namely N,N-bis[[1-(phenylmethyl)-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl]methyl]-2-pyridinemethaneamine (L), was synthesized through a click reaction of N,N-di-2-propyn-1-yl-2-pyridinemethanamine with benzyl azide in the presence of CuI catalyst. Treatment of L with CuCl₂ or Fe(NCS)₂ gave the complexes [CuLCl₂]·EtOH (1) and [FeL(NCS)₂]·MeCN (2). Single-crystal X-ray studies show that in 1, the Cu(II) center has slightly distorted square pyramidal geometry resulting from the coordination of one pyridinyl nitrogen atom, one tertiary amine nitrogen atom, one triazole nitrogen atom, and two chloride atoms; in 2, the Fe(II) center has distorted octahedral geometry, coordinated by six nitrogen atoms; two each from NCS^? groups and triazole rings, one from a pyridinyl ring, and one from tertiary amine nitrogen. In addition, complexes 1 and 2 were characterized by spectroscopic and electrochemical methods.