US 7,527,814 B2
Process for the isolation of calliterpenone
Anil Kumar Singh, Lucknow (India); Suman Preet Singh Khanuja, Lucknow (India); Sudeep Tandon, Lucknow (India); Alok Kalra, Lucknow (India); Deeptanjali Sahoo, Lucknow (India); Atul Prakash Kahol, Lucknow (India); Madan Mohan Gupta, Lucknow (India); Ram Kishor Verma, Lucknow (India); Arun Kumar Kukreja, Lucknow (India); Mansoor Alam, Lucknow (India); Guru Das Bagachi, Lucknow (India); Ravi Prakash Bansal, Lucknow (India); Mahendra Pandurang Darokar, Lucknow (India); and Anil Kumar Gupta, Lucknow (India)
Assigned to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi (India)
Filed on Jan. 30, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/699,764.
Claims priority of application No. 0775/DEL/2006 (IN), filed on Mar. 22, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0225168 A1, Sep. 27, 2007
Int. Cl. A61K 36/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 424—774  [424/725] 20 Claims
 
1. A process for the isolation of calliterpenone from plant genus Callicarpa, the process comprising the steps of:
a. drying leaves of Callicarpa macrophylla;
b. grinding dry leaves of Callicarpa macrophylla to make a powder;
c. heating the powder with an aqueous solution to obtain an aqueous extract; wherein the aqueous solution comprises between about 1 and about 5 wt % alkali;
d. concentrating the aqueous extract to form a concentrated extract wherein a volume of the concentrated extract is less than a volume of the aqueous extract;
e. extracting the concentrated extract with a water immiscible organic solvent at a temperature to form an organic extract; wherein the water immiscible organic solvent is selected from the group consisting of pentane, hexane, diethyl ether, ethyl ether, dichloromethane and butanol;
f. concentrating the organic extract to form crude calliterpenone; and
g. purifying the crude calliterpenone to form calliterpenone.