African Journal of
Biotechnology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Biotechnol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1684-5315
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJB
  • Start Year: 2002
  • Published Articles: 12487

Full Length Research Paper

Secondary metabolites from Nepeta juncea

Nargis Jamila1, Riaz Ullah2,3*, Mohamed Ali Abdunnabi Alwahsh1, Sajjad Haider3, K.C Wong1 and Zahoor Ullah3
1School of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, Malaysia. 2Department of Chemistry, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, Pakistan. 3Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University,  P.O BOX 800, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 04 November 2011
  •  Published: 05 December 2011

Abstract

The study of the phytochemical investigation on the chemical constituents of the whole plant of Nepeta juncea belonging to the family Lamiaceae resulted in the isolation and characterization of 11 compounds. Nine of these compounds were identified as ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, β-sitosterol, stigmasterol, stigmasterol glucoside, 5,4'-dihydroxy-3,6,7-trimethoxyflavone, (-)-6β-hydroxy-15,16-epoxy-5β, 8β, 9β,10α-cleroda-3,13(16),14-trien-18-oic acid, glutinol and β-amyrin. These compounds were individually identified by different spectroscopic techniques and by comparisons with reported data. This study constitutes the first phytochemical work on Nepeta juncea.

 

Key words: Nepeta juncea, Lamiaceae, natural products

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