Isolation, characterization and antimicrobial assay of steroids from the chloroform extract of Sarcophyton elegans

• Main Author: Navaja, Lorna Milly Avila
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1991
• Subjects: Corals; Steroids; Microbiological assay; Microbial sensitivity tests; Micro-organisms > Effect of antibiotics on; Chemistry
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/1373; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8211&context=etd_masteral
• Institution: De La Salle University

Three sterols from the chloroform extract of the Philippine soft coral, Sarcophyton elegans were isolated by chromatographic methods. The structure of one of the sterol (SE3) was partially elucidated based on data from the nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr), infrared (ir) and by comparison with litera...