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- Title:
- First record of L-quebrachitol in Allophylus edulis (Sapindaceae)
- UdelaR
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
- 0008-6215
- OPCW
- TWAS
- PEDECIBA
- Programa ESCALA-AUGM
- OPCW: L/ICA/ICB/111817/06
- TWAS: RGA 05-318
- PEDECIBA: PNUD- URU/06/004
- Allophylus edulis, commonly called 'Chal chal', is a member of the Sapindaceae occurring in the Uruguayan and Brazilian native flora. During the phytochemical analysis of two Chal chal specimens from two welldifferentiated geographical zones (Assis, São Paulo, Brazil, and Santa Lucia, Canelones, Uruguay), considerable amounts of L-quebrachitol were isolated from both samples. The isolation was carried out from the ethanolic twig extracts obtained by maceration of both vegetal samples. White easily distinguishable crystals were mechanically separated, washed, and characterized by 1D and 2D NMR experiments and by MS data. Such techniques confirmed that the crystals isolated from sources collected in both countries resulted in the same compound, L-quebrachitol, a natural product not previously reported for this species and one that has been investigated as a sugar substitute for diabetics. Worthy of note, the content of L-quebrachitol in A. edulis may be the chemical basis to explain its ethnobotanical uses, since infusions of this plant are used to treat diabetes in the practice of local traditional medicine. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- 13-Oct-2008
- Carbohydrate Research. Oxford: Elsevier B.V., v. 343, n. 15, p. 2699-2700, 2008.
- 2699-2700
- Elsevier B.V.
- Allophylus edulis
- L-Quebrachitol
- L-2-O-Methyl-chiro-inositol
- Sapindaceae
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carres.2008.07.014
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