Abstract
The present study deals with the phytochemical study of the leaf extract of C. klainei, a plant used in folk medicine to treat diabetes, venereal diseases, hypertension, malaria, cough and hemorrhoids. The liquid-liquid extraction and chromatographic separation of the dichloromethane/methanol (1:1) extract of this plant led to the isolation of eleven (11) known compounds identified from the analysis of their spectroscopic and physical data, and in comparison, with data from the literature. These compounds were identified to hentriancontane (1), β-sitosterol (2), stigmasterol (3), β-amyrin (4), betulinic acid (5), sitosterol-3-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (6), diosmetin (7), iristectorigenin A (8), gallic acid (9), bergenin (10) and scyllitol (11) respectively. Furthermore, the chemotaxonomic significance of these compounds was discussed.
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