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Hydrostatic countercurrent chromatography and ultra high pressure LC: Two fast complementary separation methods for the preparative isolation and the analysis of the fragrant massoia lactones

✍ Scribed by Aurélie Urbain; Pierre Corbeiller; Nektarios Aligiannis; Maria Halabalaki; Alexios-Leandros Skaltsounis


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
148 KB
Volume
33
Category
Article
ISSN
1615-9306

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Abstract

Using a one‐step preparative hydrostatic countercurrent chromatography method, the fragrant massoia lactones were purified from the crude massoia bark oil, in less than 3 h. The fractionation was performed with the biphasic solvent system c‐hexane–methanol–water (10:9:1, v/v/v), leading to target compounds with purity over 96%, as determined by GC‐MS and ultra high pressure LC‐MS analyses. Together with C‐10, C‐12 and C‐14 massoia lactones, two other aromatic compounds used in perfumes, benzyl benzoate and benzyl salicylate, were also obtained as pure compounds. In parallel, an easy and efficient ultra high pressure LC method was developed for the ultra‐fast analysis of massoia lactones, as an alternative to long GC‐MS methods.