Chemical Constituents of Macaranga occidentalis, Antimicrobial and Chemophenetic Studies.

ABSTRACT: Medicinal plants are known as sources of potential antimicrobial compounds belonging to different classes. The aim of the present work was to evaluate the antimicrobial potential of the crude extract, fractions, and some isolated secondary metabolites from the leaves of Macaranga occidentalis, a Cameroonian medicinal plant traditionally used for the treatment of microbial infections. Repeated column chromatography of the ethyl acetate and n-butanol fractions led to the isolation of seventeen previously known compounds (1-17), among which three steroids (1-3), one triterpene (4), four flavonoids (5-8), two stilbenoids (9 and 10) four ellagic acid derivatives (11-14), one geraniinic acid derivative (15), one coumarine (16)

SUBMITTER: Kamso VFK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9782370 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature