Abstract

2kg of the dried leaves of Thuja orientalis Linnaeus were ground, extracted with acetone-$H_2O$(7:3, v/v), concentrated, and fractionated with a series of hexane, $CH_2C1_2$ EtOAc and water on a separators funnel. Each fraction was freeze dried to give dark-brown powder and a EtOAc soluble portion. of the powder was chromatographed on a Sephadex LH-20 column using a series of aqueous methanol and ethanol-hexane mixture as eluents. Spectrometric analyses such as NMR and FAB-MS including TLC were performed to characterize the structures of isolated compounds. The leave of Thuja orientalis Linnaeus contained a large amount of flavononol derivatives such as quercetin-3-O-$\alpha$-L-rhamnopyranoside and myricetin-3-O-$\alpha$-L-rhamnopyranoside in addition to a small amount of flavan compounds such as (+)-catechin and (+)-gallocatechin. The antioxidative activities of each fractions and isolated compounds were done by DPPH radical scavenging test, and all of them were indicated strong antioxidative activities.

측백나무 잎을 채취하여 건조시킨 후 분말로 제조하여 아세톤-물(7:3, v/v)로 추출하고 hexane, CH₂C1₂, EtOAc, 그리고 수용성으로 분획하여 동결건조 시켰다. 그 중에서 EtOAc 분획을 Sephadex LH-20으로 충진한 칼럼에서 메탄올과 에탄올-헥산 혼합액을 용리용매로 사용하여 칼럼크로마토그래피를 실시하였다. 단리된 화합물들은 TLC로 확인한 후 NMR스펙트럼을 사용하여 정확한 구조규명을 하였고 FAB-MS로써 분자량을 측정하였다. 주로 quercetin-3-O-a-L-rhamnopyranoside와 myricetin-3-O-α-L-rhamnopyranoside 같은 flavononol 유도체들이 다량으로 포함되어 있었으며 비교적 적은 양의 (+)-catechin과 (+)-gallocatechin 같은 flavan 화합물들도 함께 단리 되었다. 각 분획물들과 단리된 화합물들은 DPPH 라디칼 소거법을 이용하여 항산화실험을 실시하였으며, 모두 우수한 항산화 효능이 있는 것으로 나타났다.

Keywords

• Thuja orientalis Linnaeus;
• leaves;
• extractives;
• flavononol derivertives;
• flavan compound;
• DPPH;
• antioxidative activity