Purification of curcumin, demethoxycurcumin, and bisdemethoxycurcumin by high-speed countercurrent chromatography

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 56, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 9328-9336

  Inoue, Koichi ^a   Nomura, Chihiro ^a   Ito, Sumio ^b   Nagatsu, Akito ^a   Hino, Tomoaki ^a   Oka, Hisao ^a  

^a KINJO GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAN EI GEN F F I INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bisdemethoxycurcumin; Curcumin; Demethoxycurcumin; High speed countercurrent chromatography; Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry; Turmeric powder

Indexed keywords

CURCUMIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COUNTER CURRENT CHROMATOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COUNTERCURRENT DISTRIBUTION; CURCUMIN;

CURCUMA LONGA;

EID: 55549117864     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf801815n     Document Type: Article

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