PMID- 34214928 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20211004 LR - 20211004 IS - 1879-1298 (Electronic) IS - 0045-6535 (Linking) VI - 284 DP - 2021 Dec TI - Fast isolation of the environmentally relevant halogenated natural product MHC-1 by means of countercurrent chromatography. PG - 131310 LID - S0045-6535(21)01782-3 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131310 [doi] AB - Environmentally relevant halogenated natural products (HNPs) are frequently similarly high concentrated in marine biota as major anthropogenic persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The lack of widely available reference standards, however, hampers the in-depth research of several HNPs. For instance, (1R,2S,4R,5R,1'E)-2-bromo-1-bromomethyl-1,4-dichloro-5-(2'-chloroethenyl)-5-methylcyclohexane (MHC-1), which is produced by species referred to the red seaweed Plocamium cartilagineum has not yet been synthesized due to its complex structure and stereochemistry. For this reason, we aimed to establish a method for fast isolation of mg-amounts of MHC-1 from its natural producer based on countercurrent chromatography (CCC). Five biphasic solvent systems were tested and finally, the solvent system acetonitrile/n-hexane/toluene (9:9:2, v/v/v) was selected for the separations due to its suitable partition coefficient of MHC-1 (K(U/L) = 0.52). n-Hexane extracts of dried P. cartilagineum were directly injected into the CCC system. Four subsequent CCC runs from three samples of Plocamium cartilagineum (two from Heligoland, Germany and one from Brittany, France) could be performed with high reproducibility. Together, the main fraction provided ~16 mg MHC-1 in a purity of >97% according to GC/FID, GC/ECNI-MS and NMR analysis. This amount could be used to prepare ~1600 quantitative standard solutions of MHC-1. The high MHC-1 content in the seaweed sample collected at Brittany indicated that this area was another hotspot of MHC-1. CI - Copyright (c) 2021. Published by Elsevier Ltd. FAU - Wu, Qiong AU - Wu Q AD - University of Hohenheim, Institute of Food Chemistry (170b), Garbenstrasse 28, D-70599, Stuttgart, Germany. FAU - Muller, Marco AU - Muller M AD - University of Hohenheim, Institute of Food Chemistry (170b), Garbenstrasse 28, D-70599, Stuttgart, Germany. FAU - Hammerschick, Tim AU - Hammerschick T AD - University of Hohenheim, Institute of Food Chemistry (170b), Garbenstrasse 28, D-70599, Stuttgart, Germany. FAU - Mitschang, Wilfried AU - Mitschang W AD - University of Hohenheim, Institute of Food Chemistry (170b), Garbenstrasse 28, D-70599, Stuttgart, Germany. FAU - Kuhlenkamp, Ralph AU - Kuhlenkamp R AD - Phycomarin, Bredenbergsweg 5, D-21149, Hamburg, Germany. FAU - Vetter, Walter AU - Vetter W AD - University of Hohenheim, Institute of Food Chemistry (170b), Garbenstrasse 28, D-70599, Stuttgart, Germany. Electronic address: walter.vetter@uni-hohenheim.de. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210623 PL - England TA - Chemosphere JT - Chemosphere JID - 0320657 RN - 0 (Biological Products) SB - IM MH - *Biological Products MH - Countercurrent Distribution MH - Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - *Seaweed OTO - NOTNLM OT - Countercurrent chromatography OT - Halogenated natural products OT - MHC-1 OT - Plocamium cartilagineum EDAT- 2021/07/03 06:00 MHDA- 2021/10/05 06:00 CRDT- 2021/07/02 20:27 PHST- 2021/05/12 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/06/18 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/06/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/07/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/10/05 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/07/02 20:27 [entrez] AID - S0045-6535(21)01782-3 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131310 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Chemosphere. 2021 Dec;284:131310. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131310. Epub 2021 Jun 23.