In collaboration with Scientific Association of Iranian Medicinal Plants

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

2 Nanobiotechnology Research Center, Avicenna Research Institute, Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research (ACECR), Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The aerial parts of Salvia persepolitana Boiss. were collected during the flowering stage from IlamProvince. Purification of chloroform extract of S. persepolitana was carried out by column chromatography on silica gel with a gradient of n-hexan/ethyl acetate. At the end of chromatography, the column was eluted by methanol. Further purification was carried out by column chromatography (smaller columns) and thin layer chromatography (glass plates) in n-hexane–ethyl acetate as solvent for several times and yielded pure compounds. The structure of purified natural products was elucidated by using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and Mass spectrometry. The chloroform extract of S. persepolitana yielded two known diterpenoids as manool and sclareol and one known flavonoid namely ladanein. The amount of purified sclareol was 3% (18g) of the total plant weight, so S. persepolitana can be a good sourse for sclareol.

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