A Rapid and Facile Method for the Dereplication of Purified Natural Products

Abstract

A new approach to the use of commercial databases for the dereplication of purified natural products has been developed. This is based on searching a text file that links each structure with its molecular weight and an exact count of the number of methyl, methylene, and methine groups it contains. Analysis of such a text file, constructed from a database containing more than 126,000 natural product structures, revealed that these data, readily measured using MS and NMR spectroscopy, are highly discriminating. The identification of an alkaloid and a sesquiterpene using this new approach is described.