title: Isolation and purification of baicalein, wogonin and oroxylin A from the medicinal plant Scutellaria baicalensis by high-speed counter-current chromatography.
abstract: The medicinal plant Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi has been used widely in traditional Chinese medicine for anti-inflammation, anticancer, antiviral and antibacterial infections, reducing the total cholesterol level and decreasing blood pressures. A high-speed counter-current chromatography (HSCCC) method was developed for the preparative separation and purification of three bioactive flavonoids, namely, baicalein, wogonin and oroxylin A, from S. baicalensis Georgi. Preparative HSCCC with a two-phase solvent system composed of n-hexane-ethyl acetate-n-butanol-water (1:1:8:10, v/v/v/v) was successfully performed by increasing the flow-rate of the mobile phase stepwise from 1.0 to 2.0 ml min(-1) after 4 h. The components purified and collected were analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography. The method yielded 144.8 mg of baicalein at 95.7% purity, 50.2 mg of wogonin at 98.5% purity, and 12.4 mg of oroxylin A at 93.2% purity from 500 mg of the crude extract in a one-step separation. The recoveries of baicalein, wogonin and oroxylin A were 92.7%, 91.6% and 92.5%, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: Hua-Bin
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003377:Countercurrent Distribution / Q000379:methods; D044950:Flavanones / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005419:Flavonoids / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D031364:Scutellaria baicalensis / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D044950:Flavanones; D005419:Flavonoids; C006680:baicalein; C080669:5,7-dihydroxy-6-methoxy-2-phenylchromen-4-one; C085514:wogonin