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Anthocyanins and Other Flavonoids as Flower Pigments From Eleven Centaurea Species

Anthocyanins and Other Flavonoids as Flower Pigments From Eleven Centaurea Species

Tamaki Mishio, Kosaku Takeda, Tsukasa Iwashina

Nat Prod Commun. 2015 Mar;10(3):447-50.

PMID: 25924526

Abstract:

Anthocyanins and other flavonoids were isolated from the flowers of eleven Centaurea species, C. macrocephala, C. rupestotilis and C. suaveolens, which produce yellow flowers, and C. achtarovii, C. dealbata, C. montana, C. nigra, C. scabiosa, C. simplicicaulis, C. hypoleuca and C. triumfetti, which have cyanic flowers. Four anthocyanins, cyanidin 3,5-di-O-glucoside, cyanidin 3-O-(6"-malonylglucoside)-5-O-glucoside, cyanidin 3-O-(6"-succinylglucoside)-5- O-glucoside and cyanidin glycoside, were detected in the cyanic flowers of seven Centaurea species. Of these anthocyanins, the first two were found as major anthocyanins. In the cyanic species, four other flavonoids, apigenin 7-O-glucuronide-4'-O-glucoside, malonylated apigenin 7,4'-di-O-glucoside, apigenin 7-0- glucuronide and kaempferol glycoside, were also isolated. On the other hand, nine flavonols and four flavones were isolated from the three yellow-flowered species, and identified as quercetagetin, quercetagetin 7-O-glucoside, quercetagetin 3'-methyl ether 7-O-glucoside, patuletin, patuletin 7-O-glucoside, quercetin 7-O-glucoside, kaempferol 3-methyl ether, kaempferol 3-methyl ether 4'-O-glucuronide and isorhamnetin 3-O-galactoside, and apigenin, apigenin 7- O-glucuronide, luteolin 7-O-glucoside and apigenin 6,8-di-C-glucoside (vicenin-2). Of these flavonoids, the former five flavonols are "yellow flavonols", and it was shown that their flower colors are due to these compounds.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP29741091	Apigenin 7-O-glucuronide		29741-09-1	Price

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