<i>Ximenia americana</i>: Chemical and Spectral Studies of Extracts of Seeds. Analysis of Trimethylsilyl Derivatives by Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry

Abstract

Among the numerous botanical species found in the Brazilian plant biome, Ximenia americana is widespread in the Northeast of Brazil, especially in the state of Ceará, where it is known as bush plum. Its bark, leaves and roots are used in popular medicine for the treatment of skin infections, hemorrhoids, stomach ulcers, gastric pain, among others. In this work, hexane and ethanolic extracts of X. americana seeds were subjected to silylation reactions followed by analysis of the silylated derivatives by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS). In the hexane extract, 18 substances were identified, where the most abundant and most important components were the Octadec-9-enoic (38.14%), (9Z,12Z)-Octadec-9,12-dienoic (18.83%), Ethanedioic (8.21%) and (Z,Z,Z)-9,12,15-Octadecatrienoic (7.22%) acids. From the ethanol extract 18 substances were also identified having D-Sucrose (29.36%), L-Sorbose (9.19%), syllo-Inositol (8.34%) and D-Glucose (7.45%) as the main components. In addition, the presence of a steroid in hexane extract and triterpenes in ethanol extract was recorded. The constituents were identified using chromatographic and spectrometric methods, especially gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. To our knowledge, this is the first study of this nature from the oil of the X. american seeds.

Trace Level Determination of Saccharides in Pristine Marine Aerosols by Gas Chromatography—Tandem Mass Spectrometry

“…Silylation-derivatized saccharides and their fragmentation patterns have been analyzed using GC-MS [ 22 , 23 ] and GC-MS/MS [ 24 ] in previous studies. Compared to the analytical results of saccharides in food samples using GC-MS/MS [ 24 ], the detection limits were lower in this study, as shown in Appendix B .…”

Tópicos em ciências exatas e da Terra

“…A sobrevivência das gerações futuras depende diretamente das decisões que hoje estão sendo tomadas (SILVA et al, 2016) "Podemos elaborar projetos de irrigação que possam ser executados na agricultura, com o intuito de reduzir o gasto desnecessário da água, já que as perdas podem chegar até 70%" (IDOETA, 2015, p. 01).…”

Antibacterial Potential of Bidara Laut (Ximenia americana) Plant Against Vibrio alginolyticus and V. parahaemolyticus Bacteria

“…The Ximenia americana L. plant is reported to have been widely used in the treatment of various types of diseases in traditional medicine especially in the state of Ceará, where it is known as a shrub. The skin, leaves, and roots are used in popular medicine for the treatment of skin infections, hemorrhoids, stomach ulcers, stomach pain, and others (Silva et al, 2016). X. americana extract is useful for the development of anticancer drugs (Mariko et al, 2016).…”

“…Thus, it can explain the traditional basis for using this plant in the treatment of various diseases such as infectious, microbial, and cardiovascular diseases (Kiessoun et al, 2018). Oil from the seeds of X. americana, possibly as a human or animal nutraceutical ingredient (Silva et al, 2016), the leaves of X. americana has anthelmintic properties (Shettar & Vedamurthy, 2017). X. americana plant parts such as leaves, roots, bark, fruit are used for the treatment of diabetes, ulcers, cancer, malaria, fever, diarrhea, and inflammation (Siddaiah et al, 2011).…”