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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 3 Yield of ferruginol obtained from sample at each purification step

From: New separation method for terpenoids in byproducts discharged during sugi wood-drying process, and purification of ferruginol

Step

Yield of purified sample

Ferruginol

(g)

(%)

Contentd (g)

Recovery (%)

Purity (%)

BWPa

240.0

100.0

36.8

100.0

20.2

SAD (TGD)b

113.1

47.1

27.9

75.8

25.0

Silica gel column

95.4

39.7

25.0

67.9

26.2

NP-MPLC (F3)

18.9

7.9

15.9

43.2

84.0

Reductionc

18.3

7.6

17.6

47.7

96.1

RP-MPLC (F3-3)

12.7

5.3

12.7

34.5

99.8

  1. aOriginal samples of byproducts discharged after wood-drying process
  2. bTriethylene glycol distillates (TGD) fraction obtained by solvent-assisted distillation
  3. cConversion of 6,7-dehydroferruginol into ferruginol by catalytic reduction
  4. dThe amount of ferruginol was calculated by GC/FID analysis using n-heptadecane as internal standard