Secondary metabolites from Ficus ampelas Burm.F.

• Main Authors: Ragasa, Consolacion Y., Macuha, Maria Roxanne, De Los Reyes, Mariquit M. M., Mandia, Emelina H., Shen, Chien Chang
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2016
• Subjects: Ficus (Plants) > Analysis; Metabolites; Chemistry
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1238
• Institution: De La Salle University

© 2016, International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research. All rights reserved. Chemical investigation of the dichloromethane extracts of Ficus ampelas Burm.f. has led to the isolation of squalene (1), mixtures of β-amyrin fatty acid esters (2a) and a-amyrin fatty acid esters (2b) in a 1:2 ratio and β-sitosterol (3a) and stigmasterol (3b) in a 2:1 ratio, chlorophyll a (4), and saturated fatty acids (5) from the twigs; and 5, β-sitosteryl-3β-glucopyranoside-6β-O-fatty acid esters (6), and long-chain fatty alcohols (7) from the fruit. The structures of 1-7 were identified by comparison of their NMR data with those reported in the literature.