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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Liq Chromatogr Relat Technol. 2009 Jan 1;32(19):2879–2892. doi: 10.1080/10826070903297277

Table 1.

Partition coefficient (K) of four isoflavones in different solvent systems of n-hexane–ethyl acetate–methanol–water

NO. Solvent system
(v/v)
K ononin Kbiochanin A-7-glucoside K formononetin Kbiochanin A
1 7:5:7:5 -- -- 0.31 1.09
2 6:5:6:5 -- -- 0.36 1.62
3 5:5:5:5 0.003 0.02 0.90 3.02
4 4:5:4:5 0.01 0.04 1.81 4.71
5 3:5:3:5 0.16 0.30 14.13 41.72
6 2:5:2:5 0.15 0.64 29.13 108.09
7 1:5:1:5 0.51 1.97 70.66 --
8 0:1:0:1 1.35 2.88 79.56 --