Application of HPLC-NMR for the Rapid Chemical Profiling of a Southern Australian Sponge, Dactylospongia sp.
✍ Scribed by Daniel Anthony Dias; Sylvia Urban
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 583 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1615-9306
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Rapid chemical profiling of the antitumour active crude dichloromethane extract of the marine sponge, Dactylospongia sp. was undertaken. A combination of both offline (HPLC followed by NMR and MS) and on‐line (on‐flow and stop‐flow HPLC‐NMR) chemical profiling approaches was adopted to establish the exact nature of the major constituents present in the dichloromethane extract of this sponge. On‐flow HPLC‐NMR analysis was employed to initially identify components present in the dichloromethane extract, while stop‐flow HPLC‐NMR experiments were then conducted on the major component present, resulting in the partial identification of pentaprenylated p‐quinol (5). Subsequent off‐line RP semi‐preparative HPLC isolation of 5 followed by detailed spectroscopic analysis using NMR and MS permitted the complete structure to be established. This included the first complete carbon NMR chemical shift assignment of 5 based on the heteronuclear 2‐D NMR experiments, together with the first report of its antitumour activity. This study represents one of the few reports describing the application of HPLC‐NMR to chemically profile secondary metabolites from a marine organism.