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Leucasin, a triterpene saponin from Leucas nutans
M Hasan1, D K Burdi, V U Ahmad
1Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Phytochemistry
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
A new saponin, leucasin, has been isolated from Leucas nutans and characterized on the basis of chemical investigation and spectroscopic studies as 3-O-[beta-D-glucopyranosyl(1----2)beta-D-glucopyranosyl]2 alpha, 3 beta-dihydroxylup-20(29)-ene. Lupeol palmitate, sitosterol and stigmasterol were also isolated.