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Application of Band-Selective HSQC NMR in Species Discrimination and Adulteration Identification of Panax Linn

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Congcong Guo, Jiyang Dong, Lingli Deng, Kian‐Kai Cheng, Yue Xu, Haowen Zhu, An‐Jun Deng, Xia Zhou, Hai‐Lin Qin, Yinghong Wang

Summary

This is an analytical chemistry paper presenting an NMR method to distinguish and detect adulteration among Panax ginseng species; it is not a microplastics research paper.

The quality of Panax Linn products available in the market is threatened by adulteration with different Panax species, such as Panax quinquefolium (PQ), Panax ginseng (PG), and Panax notoginseng (PN). In this paper, we established a 2D band-selective heteronuclear single quantum coherence (bs-HSQC) NMR method to discriminate species and detect adulteration of Panax Linn. The method involves selective excitation of the anomeric carbon resonance region of saponins and non-uniform sampling (NUS) to obtain high-resolution spectra in less than 10 min. The combined strategy overcomes the signal overlap limitation in 1H NMR and the long acquisition time in traditional HSQC. The present results showed that twelve well-separated resonance peaks can be assigned in the bs-HSQC spectra, which are of high resolution, good repeatability, and precision. Notably, the identification accuracy of species was found to be 100% for all tests conducted in the present study. Furthermore, in combination with multivariate statistical methods, the proposed method can effectively determine the composition proportion of adulterants (from 10% to 90%). Based on the PLS-DA models, the identification accuracy was greater than 80% when composition proportion of adulterants was 10%. Thus, the proposed method may provide a fast, practical, and effective analysis technique for food quality control or authenticity identification.

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