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Daolio C., Ferreira A. G., Ferreira M. M. C., "1H HR-MAS NMR and Chemometric Analysis to Study Commercial Phytoterapic Plants". Copenhagen, Denmark, 13-15/09/2004: 7th International Conference on Applications of Magnetic Resonance in Food Science: The multivariate challenge. Book of Abstracts, (2004). Poster 10.


10 - 1H HR-MAS NMR AND CHEMOMETRIC ANALYSIS TO STUDY COMMERCIAL PHYTOTERAPIC PLANTS

Cristina Daolio 1, Antonio Gilberto Ferreira1, Marcia M.C. Ferreira2,
1DQ/UFSCAR-São Paulo-Brazil, 2IQ/UNICAMP-São Paulo-Brazil

Catuaba is a commercial phytoterapic product and has a long history of using in Brazilian popular medicine as physical and mental tonic and especially as a sexual stimulant. However, there is a big confusion regarding to the correct species sold commercially as Catuaba. One species is Anemopaegma arvense (Bignoniaceae) called the “official Catuaba” wich principal active compounds are the alkaloids. Nevertheless, recent studies showed that in the herbal commerce today the species Trichilia catigua (Meliaceae) is the most consumed species and the limonoids are the chemical markers for this family.
In this work we analyse samples with official botanical classification of both species and eight commercial samples by using 1H HR/MAS and liquid 1H NMR. The spectra data showed that after PCA analysis the samples sold in commercial market are not from Anemopaegma arvense like we will spect. We can also saw that most of them are very close with Trichilia catigua and few one are completely different from this two species. In this case, probably it will be a mixture of differents plants species. The spectral analysis indicated that both methods, líquid and HR/MAS, lead to the same results. In 1H HR/MAS NMR technique we used the crude bark tree without any pretreatment and for liquid experiments a crude methanol extract.
The 1H NMR data were acquire in BRUKER 9.4 Tesla equipment and all measurements were done in triplicate using a 4 mm rotor and 5 mm inverse detection probe, respectively and we use the PCA for chemometric analysis.