BASIC HYDROLYSIS OF ETHYL OXAL-ACETATE AND SOME CHEMICAL CHARACTERS OF 3-ETHOXY CAEBONYL PYRUVIC ACID

The products of basic hydrolysis of ethyl oxal-acetate and the preparation of 3-ethoxy carbonyl pyruvic acid 1 are reported.Esterification reaction of 1 with unhindered alcohols could be carried out smoothly, but it was unsuccessful with hindered alcohols.

Comparative chemical characters of Sparganii Rhizoma from different regions in China

Objective： To compare the chemical characters of Sparganii Rhizoma from different areas via chromatographic analysis and to establish a sensitive LC/MS method for quality assessment of Sparganii Rhizoma.Methods： Under the optimised HPLC-PDA chromatographic conditions,twenty batches of Sparganii Rhizoma were analyzed by HPLC fingerprints.Principal component analysis（PCA）,orthogonal projections to latent structures discriminant analysis（OPLS-DA）and hierarchical cluster analysis（HCA）were performed based on all peak areas of Sparganii Rhizoma fingerprints.Meanwhile,part of common peaks were subsequently quantified by UFLC-QTRAP-MS.Results： The similarity values of HPLC fingerprints fluctuated in a wide range of 0.511–0.973,which showed variable differences of chemical characters among Sparganii Rhizoma from twenty habitats.PCA,OPLS-DA and HCA indicated that samples could be divided into five groups with different chemical characters,which generally corresponded with their geographical distributions.A total of 31 peaks in HPLC fingerprints were marked,and eight of them were identified and quantified.The quantitative result was generally in agreement with the classifications based on HPLC fingerprints,which indicated that Sparganii Rhizoma samples from eastern China mostly contained more contents including phenolic acids and flavonoids.Conclusion： This study not only proved that there were relationships between geographic distributions and internal chemical compositions of plants,which could provide evidence to the traditional Chinese medicine concept ＂geo-authentic＂,but also supplied a sensitive and rapid simultaneous quantitive method for the quality estimation of Sparganii Rhizoma.

Comparative Study in Chemical Character and Fatty acidCompositions of Masked Civet's Fat and Nutria's Oil

The fat production rate in adult healthy masked civet(Paguma lavata) and nutria (Myocaster coypus) oil were measured. The values of iodine. saponification and acid PH, composition of fstty acids of grease were analyzed both chemically and by apparatus. The results showed that acid PH, iodine value, saponification value,and unsaturation point are 1.887 and 0.784, 53.90 and 48.32, 98.80 and 100.23. and 60.05% and 58.85% are respectively for masked civet's fat and nutria's oil. Both of masked civet's fat and nutria's oil contain a little of Eicosatetraenoic acid (C-20;4), which is of great significance in nutrition and metabolism for human body. The analysis results indicate that masked civet's oil is similar to nutria's oil in iodine value, saponification value and unsaturation point. Both masked civet's fat and nutria's oil are steady and have highly nutrition. They can be widely exploited and utilized in health protection and cosmetics made industry.