Analysis of the chemical composition of Angelicae Pubescentis Radix by ultra-performance liquid chromatography and quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry

Angelicae Pubescentis Radix (APR, Duhuo) is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine and usually used for the treatments of rheumatic diseases. To assess the chemical composition of APR extract, a sensitive and reliable UPLC-Q?TOF-MS method was used for qualitative analysis. The separation was achieved on an Agilent SB-Ci8 column (1.8 pm, 2.1 mm><50 mm) with a gradient elution system consisting of acetonitrile and water containing 0.1% formic acid. An electrospray ionization (ESI) was used for mass spectrometer, and the data were collected in the positive ion mode, which was operated in a full-scan mode at m/z 100-800. A total of 49 compounds including 46 coumarins were identified according to the MS and MS/MS data. Among them, two were new compounds, and isoangenomalin, scoparone, 4-methyl-umbelliferyl acetate, suberenol,/raw5-dehydroosthol, and oroselone were first reported in APR.

Simultaneous quantifi cation and evaluate the differences of two skeleton components in raw,salt and wine Angelicae Pubescentis Radix by UPLC-MS/MS in negative/positive modes coupled with chemometrics

The aim of this study was to establish an ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with triple-quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry method with positive and negative ion exchange scanning mode for simultaneous quantification of two different skeleton components to reveal the differences among raw and processed Angelicae Pubescentis Radix. The results of methodology showed that each compound had good linearity and recovery rates. And the chemometrics results indicate that there were differences not only in Angelicae Pubescentis Radix samples from different sources but also in raw and processed Angelicae Pubescentis Radix. The results of this study confirm that the method has been successfully applied in simultaneous determination and discovering the difference of two different skeleton components between raw and processed Angelicae Pubescentis Radix for the first time. In short, the method could be an effective tool for detecting the quality of traditional Chinese medicine, and can better reveal the difference between raw and processed Chinese medicine from different sources.

Extraction optimization of coumarins from radix angelicae pubescentis by HPLC-DAD coupled with uniform design

Uniform design was used to optimize extraction condition of direct refluence extraction of coumarins from the Chinese traditional medicine of radix angelicae pubescentis(Duhuo); the sum peak area of coumarins separated with high performance liquid chromatography(HPLC) at detection wavelength of 320nm was considered as detection index, two factors of solvent concentration and extraction time were mainly studied at extraction temperature of 85℃ and a volume ratio of solvent to sample of 10∶1. Optimal subclass, quadric polynomial step by step aggression and neural network method were applied to process the experimental results. The results show that the first and second methods give the same factors combination (concentration of ethanol: 95%, extraction time: 3.6 h) and the second method is much better than the first one. The extraction model is consequently developed.