The dried algal samples (15 kg) were ground and extracted with
methanol (Xilong Scientific, China) by ultra-sonication assisted extraction method at 40 o C for 48 hours and replicated thrice, followed by rotary evaporation (Eyela, Japan). The
methanolic extract was then liquid-liquid extracted with different solvents of increasing polarity (nhexan, ethyl acetate and water), yielding A, T and W fractions, respectively.
The ethyl acetate fraction (T) (90 g) of algal
methanolic extract was chosen to be subjected to column chromatography on
silica gel C-18 (Merck, 0.063-0.2 mm, Φ = 10 cm), eluted with n-hexan:ethyl acetate (1:0, 20:1, 10:1, 5:1, 1:1 and 0:1, v/v) to obtain 8 subfractions (T1-T8). Owing to similarities in thinlayer chromatography (TLC) results, T3 and T4 sub-fractions were accumulated and then chromatographed on
silica gel C-18 (Merck, 0.04-0.063 mm, Φ = 3 cm), eluted with nhexan:ethyl acetate (10:1, v/v), followed by loading on
Sephadex LH-20 column (Merck, Germany) with petroleum ether/chloroform/
methanol (2:1:1, v/v/v) elution to obtain compound S1 (45 mg).
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