Hassan Abdalla Almahy Dafalla1, 2
1Taif University, KSA 2University of Bahri, Sudan
Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Nat Prod Chem Res
The dichloromethane extract of the air-dried leaves of Ficus nitida belongs to the family Moraceae afforded lutein (1), β-sitosterol (2), stigmasterol (3), chlorophyll a (4), phytol (5), (E)-3-alkenoic acid (6), triglycerides, fatty alcohols and fatty acids while the twigs yielded saturated fatty acid ester. The structures of 1-5 on the basis of spectroscopic data such as IR, UV, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, COSY, HMQC, HMBC, DEPT and MS and confirmed by comparison data with those reported in the literature. The structure of 6 was elucidated by 1D and 2D NMR spectroscopy. However, bioactivity screening showed that the pure isolated compounds possessed activity on two species of bacteria Bacillus cereus NRRLUI-1447 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa UI-60690 and no activity against four species of fungi (Aspergillus ochraceus NRRL 398, Candida lipolytica ATCC 2075, Sacchromyces cereviseae NRRL 2034 and Sacchromyces lipolytica).
Hassan Abdalla Almahy Dafalla has completed his PhD from University Putra Malaysia. Currently he is a Professor at the Department of Chemistry from Taif University Saudi Arabia.
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