Optimization and Isolation of 4,8,12,16-Tetramethylheptadecan-4-olide from Deinbollia pinnata

Abstract

Manual agitation on ultrasonic assisted extraction process, fractionation, isolation and purification afforded 4,8,12,16-tetramethylheptadecan-4-olide (1) along with 11 compounds 2-12 i.e., squalene (2), phytyl palmitate (3), lupeol (4), taraxasterol (5), myristic acid (6), palmitic acid (7), campesterol (8), stigmasterol (9), λ-sitosterol (10), stigmastan-3, 5-diene (11) and stigmasta-5,22-diene-3-ol acetate (12). Their structures were elucidated spectroscopically (2D NMR, IR, GC-MS and 1D NMR). The optimal conditions for high yield of extracts were obtained at 45 °C, after 35 min and solvent ratio 50:50 mL for 83.01 % yield; which was applied on agita-sonication process for bulk sample extraction of D. pinnata leaves with single solvent at a time. Thus, this work provides alternative method to overcome large sample extraction for phyto-constituents of isolation of 4,8,12,16-tetramethylheptadecan-4-olide (1) with ten other compounds from this specie pinnata and genius Deinbollia except stigmasterol (9).