The chemical composition of the leaf essential oil of Croton regelianus collected from wild plants growing in two different sites at Ceará State (Brazil) was analyzed by GC/MS and GC-FID. Twenty monoterpenoids, representing more than 96% of the chemical composition of the oils, were identified and quantified. The oils showed similar chemical composition but considerable variation in the levels of each constituent. Ascaridole (33.9-17.0%), p-cymene (22.3-21.6%), and camphor (13.0-3.1%) were the predominant constituents. The monoterpene ascaridole was isolated and characterized by spectroscopic data. The essential oils and the isolated compounds were tested against Aedes aegypti and Artemia sp. larvae, and the root knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita. The bioassay results show that the essential oil of C. regelianus and ascaridole were moderately active against the M. incognita, but strongly effective against both A. aegypti and Artemia sp. larvae.
Two steroids (1 and 2), five pentacyclic triperpenoids (3-7) and a new furanosesquiterpene (8) were isolated from the stems of Ximenia americana, family Olacaceae. The structures of the compounds were established by spectral data; two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy has been used to assign all 1 H and 13 C chemical shifts of 8. Compound 8 did not inhibit the growth of HL-60 (human leukemia), HTC-8 (human colon), and MDA-MB-435 (human breast cancer) cell lines.
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