FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2006, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (10): 323-326.

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A Preliminary Investigation into the Separation and Identification of Astaxanthin and Related Compounds by C30-HPLC-PDA

 PEI  Ling-Peng, HUI  Bo-Di, LIU  Rui, LI  Jing   

  1. 1.China Academy of Chinese Medicine Science, Beijing 100700, China; 2.College of Applied Arts and Science, Beijing Union University, Beijing 100083, China; 3.College of Life Science, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100037, China
  • Online:2006-10-15 Published:2011-11-16

Abstract: Astaxanthin was an important functional factor wild applied in food and pharmaceutical products with various disease-protection and disease - treatment functions. The analysis of astaxanthin and related compounds was a difficult task due to their poor peak shapes on RP-HPLC. In this study, a series of effort was made to develop a separation method of astaxanthin- like compounds on C30-HPLC-PDA, including the separations of astaxanthin and its di-esters, geometrical isomers and degradation products. Data from those experiments suggested that by acidic acetonitrile-water (mobile phase A) and MTBE (mobile phase B), fractions mentioned as above were able to be separated successfully. This result is going to form the possibility of their quantization on C30-HPLC-PDA.

Key words:  , astaxanthin; C30 column; HPLC;