ABSTRACT
In dried leaves of C. exuosa by identifying derivs. of the isothiocyanates produced by their enzymic hydrolysis (Kjaer and Schuster 1971)
Butyl-glucosinolate
In dried leaves of C. exuosa by identifying derivs. of the isothiocyanates produced by their enzymic hydrolysis (Kjaer and Schuster 1971)
Epiprogoitrin
From C. ovata, desulfoglucosinolate, extd. and quantified from leaves, seeds, flowers, flower buds, and young shoots, 39.35 ± 0.09 and 25.56 ± 0.11 μmol g−1 dry wt. in seed and leaf exts. (Bor et al. 2009)
Glucobrassicin
From C. ovata, desulfoglucosinolate, extd. and quantified from leaves, seeds, flowers, flower buds, and young shoots, 39.35 ± 0.09 and 25.56 ± 0.11 μmol g−1 dry wt. in seed and leaf exts. (Bor et al. 2009); in roots of C. spinosa detd. by HPLC and mass spec., w/respect to a 4-methoxyoxindole in roots of C. tomentosa (Schraudolf 1988); in varying amounts in C. ovata var. palaestina, C. spinosa var. aegyptia, and C. spinosa var. deserti (Ahmed et al. 1972)
Glucocapangalin In varying amounts in C. ovata var. palaestina, C. spinosa var. aegyptia, and C. spinosa var. deserti (Ahmed et al. 1972)
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Glucosinolates of Capparis
Compound Notes
Glucocapangulin
Revealed by paper chromatography as glycoside in MeOH ext. of seed embryos of C. angulata, purification w/acid-washed alumina and acetylation → tetraacetate as cryst. K salt, m. 168-9°, [α]22D −190.0° (H2O), −16.5° (MeOH), hydrolysis of the cryst. acetate w/20% HCl, 50° 2.5 h → 50% 5-oxooctanoic acid, m. 32°; S-benzylthiuronium salt m. 132°; p-bromophenacyl ester m. 89°; semicarbazone m. 186°, which detd. the side-chain structure (Kjaer et al. 1960)
Glucocapparin
From C. ovata, most prominent desulfoglucosinolate, extd. and quantified from leaves, seeds, flowers, flower buds, and young shoots, 39.35 ± 0.09 and 25.56 ± 0.11 μmol g−1 dry wt. in seed and leaf exts. (Bor et al. 2009); quantified in diff. parts of C. spinosa w/HPLC, Phnomenex ODS (4.6 × 250 mm, 5 μm) column, mobile phase: methanol-0.002 mol/L−1 KCl soln. (15:85), flow rate 0.8 mL/ min−1, detection wavelength 224 nm, linear range 1.96-58.8 μg/ mL−1, linear relation (r = 0.9999), Y = 13685.4X - 109.1, av. recovery 96.3% (RSD = 2.0%), column temp. 25° (Meiliwan et al. 2008a,b); > 95% of total glucosinolates in C. ovata and C. spinosa (Matthäus and Özcan 2005); from seeds of C. decidua, sepd. from pericarp, defatted by refluxing w/petrol. ether, then extd. 3x w/70% aq. MeOH, ext. concd. and chromatographed using various solvent systems (Juneja et al. 1970); in varying amounts in C. ovata var. palaestina, C. spinosa var. aegyptia, and C. spinosa var. deserti (Ahmed et al. 1972); ∼ 90% of total glucosinolates, varied according to bud size, in C. spinosa var. spinosa and C. ovata Desf. var. canescens, most variability in C. spinosa buds (Matthäus and Özcan 2002)
Glucocappasalin
Paper chromatography of C. salicifolia seed, tree indigenous to Chaco region of Argentina, ion-exchange purification and acetylation yielded the tetraacetate as cryst. K salt, m. 133-6° (decompn.), IR → oxo group, analysis → C23H34O14NS2K, 0.5 H2O for the acetate w/(C7H15)(CO) as side chain, NMR → unbranched C8-chain contg. CO− in γ position vis-à-vis terminal Me, therefore higher homolog of glucocapangulin (Kjaer and Thomsen 1962)
Glucocleomin
In varying amounts in C. ovata var. palaestina, C. spinosa var. aegyptia, and C. spinosa var. deserti (Ahmed et al. 1972)
Glucosinolates of Capparis
Compound Notes
Glucoiberin
From C. ovata, desulfoglucosinolate, extd. and quantified from leaves, seeds, flowers, flower buds, and young shoots, 39.35 ± 0.09 and 25.56 ± 0.11 μmol g−1 dry wt. in seed and leaf exts. (Bor et al. 2009); in roots of C. spinosa detd. by HPLC and mass spec., w/ respect to a 4-methoxyoxindole in roots of C. tomentosa (Schraudolf 1988); in varying amounts in C. ovata var. palaestina, C. spinosa var. aegyptia, and C. spinosa var. deserti (Ahmed et al. 1972)
Gluconapin
From C. ovata, desulfoglucosinolate, extd. and quantified from leaves, seeds, flowers, flower buds, and young shoots, 39.35 ± 0.09 and 25.56 ± 0.11 μmol g−1 dry wt. in seed and leaf exts. (Bor et al. 2009)
Glucosinalbin
From C. ovata, desulfoglucosinolate, extd. and quantified from leaves, seeds, flowers, flower buds, and young shoots, 39.35 ± 0.09 and 25.56 ± 0.11 μmol g−1 dry wt. in seed and leaf exts. (Bor et al. 2009)
2-Hydroxy-3-butenylglucosinolate
In dried leaves of C. exuosa by identifying derivs. of the isothiocyanates produced by their enzymic hydrolysis (Kjaer and Schuster 1971)
3-Hydroxybutyl-glucosinolate
In dried leaves of C. exuosa by identifying derivs. of the isothiocyanates produced by their enzymic hydrolysis (Kjaer and Schuster 1971)
4-Hydroxybutyl-glucosinolate
In dried leaves of C. exuosa by identifying derivs. of the isothiocyanates produced by their enzymic hydrolysis (Kjaer and Schuster 1971)
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Glucosinolates of Capparis
Compound Notes
2-Hydroxyethyl-glucosinolate
From C. masaikai seeds, chem. degradative, spectroscopic studies → isolation and characterization, simplest glucosinolate to spontaneously cyclize on rx. w/thioglucoside glucohydrolase (EC 3.2.3.1, myrosinase), → oxazolidine-2-thione at pH 6.0, 3% of dry seed meal (Hu 1988, Hu et al. 1989)
4-Methoxyglucobrassicin In roots of C. spinosa detd. by HPLC and mass spec., w/respect to a 4-methoxyoxindole in roots of C. tomentosa (Schraudolf 1988)
3-Methyl-3-butenylglucosinolate
By paper chromatography of 70% MeOH ext. of dried leaf material of C. linearis → only one thioglucoside, 3-methyl-3butenylglucosinolate, acetylation of the K salt → tetraacetate, which crystd. as the tetramethylammonium salt hemihydrate m. 168-71° decompn., [α]24D −22° (c 0.3, H2O), confirmed by IR, NMR, MS (Kjaer and Wagnieres 1965)
Neoglucobrassicin
H3CO In roots of C. spinosa detd. by HPLC and mass spec., w/respect to a 4-methoxyoxindole in roots of C. tomentosa (Schraudolf 1988), in varying amounts in C. ovata var. palaestina, C. spinosa var. aegyptia, and C. spinosa var. deserti (Ahmed et al. 1972)
Progoitrin
From C. ovata, desulfoglucosinolate, extd. and quantified from leaves, seeds, flowers, flower buds, and young shoots, 39.35 ± 0.09 and 25.56 ± 0.11 μmol g−1 dry wt. in seed and leaf exts. (Bor et al. 2009)
Sinigrin
From C. ovata, desulfoglucosinolate, extd. and quantified from leaves, seeds, flowers, flower buds, and young shoots, 39.35 ± 0.09 and 25.56 ± 0.11 μmol g−1 dry wt. in seed and leaf exts. (Bor et al. 2009); in roots of C. spinosa detd. by HPLC and mass spec., w/ respect to a 4-methoxyoxindole in roots of C. tomentosa (Schraudolf 1988); in varying amounts in C. ovata var. palaestina, C. spinosa var. aegyptia, and C. spinosa var. deserti (Ahmed et al. 1972)
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