Chemical profiling of the fruits of Styrax officinalis L. from Monti Lucretili (Latium region, Central Italy): Chemotaxonomy and nutraceutical potential

محورهای موضوعی : Phytochemistry: Isolation, Purification, Characterization

Alessandro Venditti ¹ , Claudio Frezza ² , Ilaria Serafini ³ , Sabina Pulone ⁴ , Giorgina Scardelletti ⁵ , Fabio Sciubba ⁶ , Armandodoriano Bianco ⁷ , Mauro Serafini ⁸

1 - Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
2 - Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
3 - Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
4 - Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
5 - Parco Naturale Regionale dei Monti Lucretili, Via A. Petrocchi 11, 00018 Palombara Sabina (Italy)
6 - Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
7 - Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
8 - Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy

تاریخ دریافت : 1396/08/16 تاریخ پذیرش : 1396/11/08 تاریخ انتشار : 1396/12/10

کلید واژه: phytochemical analysis, Chemotaxonomy, Fruits, Nutraceutics, Ethno-pharmacology, <i>Styrax officinalis</i> L,

چکیده مقاله :

In this work, the first phytochemical analysis ever performed on the fruits of Styrax officinalis L. (Styracaceae) collected from a population vegetating in the Mounts Lucretili National Park (Italy) was reported. Fifteen compounds were identified: tri-α-linolenoyl-sn-glycerol (1), 1,2-di-α-linolenoyl-3-linoleoyl-sn-glycerol (2), 1-α-linolenoyl-2-palmitoyl-sn-glycerol (3), 1,2-di-α-linolenoyl-sn-glycerol (4), egonol (5), demethylegonol (6), homoegonol (7), 1,5-anhydro-D-mannitol (8), glucose (9), sucrose (10), 6''''-O-benzoyl-sucrose (11), raffinose (12), lactic acid (13), succinic acid (14) and glutamic acid (15). These compounds belong to seven different classes of natural metabolites and most of them have chemotaxonomic relevance. Moreover, S. officinalis might be an useful source of enantiopure 1,5-anhydro-D-mannitol which has several medicinal potentialities and is a versatile building block in organic synthesis, in particular for what concern the “Green” approaches, of valuable and potentially biologically active molecules. The presence of compounds (1-15) provides also a phytochemical rationale for the ancient ethnopharmacological uses of the species and affords evidences on its nutraceutical potentialities even for their consumption as food in human nutrition as it actually happens for animals.