막걸리는 우리의 전통 주류이며, 최근 그 선호도가 높아지고 있음에도 불구하고 그에 함유된 성분들에 관한 체계적인 연구는 거의 전무한 실정이다. 그래서 막걸리에 함유된 항산화 활성화합물에 초점을 맞추어 column chromatography 및 HPLC를 행하여 화합물을 단리하고, 단리된 화합물들을 MS 및 NMR 분석을 행해 구조를 해석하였다. 그 결과 단리된 8종의 화합물을 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde(1), 2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethanol(2, tyrosol), trans-ferulic acid(3), cis-ferulic acid(4), 1H-indole-3-ethanol(5, tryptophol), dimethyl succinate(6), succinic acid(7), 그리고 mono-methyl succinate(8)로 동정하였다. 그리고 막걸리로부터 유기산들(화합물 6-8)의 존재가 보고된 바 있으나, 유기산 이외의 화합물 1-5는 본 연구에 의해 막걸리로부터 그 존재가 처음 밝혀졌다.
The present study was carried out to isolate and identify of antioxidants from makgeolli. Makgeolli (3 L) was filtered and the residue was extracted by MeOH. The combined filtrates and MeOH extracts were successively solventfractionated by n-hexane, EtOAc, and BuOH. In the antioxidative activity against DPPH and $ABTS^+$ radicals of each fraction obtained after solvent-fractionation, EtOAc and BuOH layers showed higher activities than other fractions. Therefore, the two layers were respectively purified by column chromatography and HPLC. The isolated compounds were subjected to NMR and MS analyses and identified as 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde (1, 2.0 mg), 2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethanol (2, tyrosol, 15.3 mg), trans- and cis-ferulic acids (3 and 4, 1.2 mg), 1H-indole-3-ethanol (5, tryptophol, 3.4 mg), dimethyl succinate (6, 14.9 mg), succinic acid (7, 7.4 mg), and mono-methyl succinate (8, 7.8 mg). The presence of 1-5 in makgeolli have never before been reported.
